American Oligarchy....By Josh Hammer

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American Oligarchy
The Left is correct to bewail the sordid and fallen state of "our democracy." It just has no idea why.
By Josh Hammer
January 7, 2022

To observe that the Left and its cheerleading media have treated the one-year anniversary of the January 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot as a solemn occasion would be to understate the point. For the Left, the (actually) mostly peaceful demonstrations of that day, which for a small percentage of demonstrators did entail illegal trespassing of the Capitol, represented a watershed moment in the history of our “democracy.” January 6 was the day, the narrative goes, where “deplorable” Trumpians attempted to effectuate an “insurrection” and a “coup,” seeking to “overturn” the results of the perfect and pristine 2020 presidential election.

The lead-up to the one-year January 6 anniversary was endlessly promoted by our insular and self-congratulatory Washington press corps as something akin to the one-year anniversary of September 11, 2001. The imbecilic and senile dolt who is our commander-in-chief dedicated his January 6, 2022, remarks to excoriating his predecessor for that predecessor’s alleged incitement of an “insurrection.” Defying parody, a candlelight vigil was held at the National Mall—”in remembrance of the attack on our democracy that occurred on January 6, 2021.”

In fairness, it is true that modern America no longer meets a threshold definition of “democracy.” But the Left is wrong as to why. America in the year 2022 is not a nation bedeviled by a great scourge of right-wing political violence, but it is a nation bedeviled by a monolithic and intellectually homogenous oligarchy that seeks to subjugate dissenting “deplorables” by any means necessary. Consider some examples.

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American Oligarchy/By Josh Hammer on January 7, 2022.
In fairness, it is true that modern America no longer meets a threshold definition of “democracy.”

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The city/states of Ancient Greece, among them Athens, Corinth, Ephesus, Sparta, Thebes......
created the institution of democracy which had zero resemblance to the carnival we label democracy.
The Greek Assembly, a model for the Parliaments of the following 2,700 years, required creativity,
character, knowledge, wit & wisdom, among core attributes.
In contrast, we are content as long as our assorted assholery show up for work.
Cultures/Societies get the governance they tolerate and embrace!!!