How America Became A Dog Shit Democracy

By failing to convict Trump, America has condemned itself

indi.ca
5 min readFeb 15, 2021

A healthy democracy expels its own shit. South Korea has convicted ALL of its living ex-Presidents, South Africa removed Jacob Zuma, Lesotho, France, Ukraine, Peru — this shit is regular, as it should be. American democracy, however, is severely impacted. Congress could not convict Donald Trump for attacking… Congress. This is not a sign of a healthy democracy. This is a sign that y’all dead.

Americans love thinking that they’re this grand old democracy, but no, no, you’re young and you suck. America didn’t have universal franchise until 1965, well behind over 50 other democracies. Even what you have now is some racist Rube Goldberg machine. WTF is an Electoral College, and why?

American democracy is, in fact, exceptionally fragile and exceptionally shit. Other democracies have problems, but not like this. Please note these two basic idiocies.

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Indrajit (Indi) Samarajiva is a Sri Lankan writer. Follow me at www.indi.ca, or just email me at indi@indi.ca.