Several posts about creating a new website, so I thought I'd take a poll.

[delrem]

15. To be trite, look outside the box.

The US is a democracy, but it is only one of many democratic countries in the world.
US democracy is existentially threatened, that's for sure. But not all democracies are.

Some are threatened least of all. And there are structural differences between the various implementations of democracy.

There are structural similarities between those which are threatened least, and likewise similarities between those which are threatened most.

Just to look at some of those which are threatened most.
To my mind, there's something intrinsically unstable about a duopoly, a two party system that in effect elects a king/queen in a trade-off, red team gets it for 8 yrs, then blue, then red, then ..., in an election designed to be a click-enhancing circus by a monopoly-MSM which also, by nature of the beast, owns/controls the entire economy. Tell me how to tame that dragon. In Columbia, after their (US backed) coup overthrowing democracy1, that exact structure was explicitly used as model to organize the diverse interests plundering the nation in a democracy2. Democracy2 being false front made possible by the intrinsic structural weakness of democracy1 coupled with an absolute concentration of wealth and power.

Any democracy is threatened by the possibility of a military coup, and there are other more subtle ways, like what's happening right now in Brazil (seems that the US's NSA is somewhat involved in those shenanigans as well). So the US isn't the only threatened democracy.

I mean, even Honduras had a short period of democracy, and now it's been delivered another after a (US backed) coup - another democracy of the identical model as abovesaid. That's pretty bad, right?

Chickens come home to roost.