Why American Democracy Sucks
This is a Part II. Part I is more general philosophy here.
I grew up thinking that democracy was A) a thing and B) a good thing. but none of this is true. Democracy is many things, none of them inherently good. The paradox is that because I grew up inside a liberal democracy, I was the last to know.
Growing up in Ohio, pledging allegiance to the flag, the idea of my own freedom was so tied to the illusion of democratic freedom that I couldn’t question one without shattering the other. And I just didn’t. I didn’t even think of it. That’s the problem with Western democracy.
America is so preoccupied with being a democracy that it’s not becoming a democracy. And democracy is like a bicycle–if you’re not moving forward, you’re falling off. The problem is that Americans are so proud of being a democracy that they can’t see that their democracy is actually shit. And so they make no attempts to fix it. And so it falls down.
The problem with American democracy is not the filibuster. It’s their philosophy. Paradoxically, the best place to get a perspective on this is from China.
Wait, but China is the enemy!
“But China?” you might say, “the horror!” Hold on to your pearls. I won’t try to…
