We’ve had the spectacle of the first Trump-Biden ‘debate’ and the verdict is in. The US lamestream media finally admits that Biden isn’t up to the job. He’s an 81-year-old “elderly man with a poor memory” who appears to be suffering from dementia. These post-debate assessments from pundits from the paper of record, the New York Times, say it all:
Your last 2 paras also apply to UK, but without either candidate being octogenarian. Thus does democracy die: not through public disorder or voter abstention, but by politics and politicans being bought by the ultra-wealthy. Welcome to fascist feudalism.
Yes, the UK is in the same sinking boat. The system needs to be smashed - it can't be reformed. For Scotland, it means getting out of the union but putting something very different in its place - real popular sovereignty - decentralised direct democracy. We have a long way to go....
Your last 2 paras also apply to UK, but without either candidate being octogenarian. Thus does democracy die: not through public disorder or voter abstention, but by politics and politicans being bought by the ultra-wealthy. Welcome to fascist feudalism.
Yes, the UK is in the same sinking boat. The system needs to be smashed - it can't be reformed. For Scotland, it means getting out of the union but putting something very different in its place - real popular sovereignty - decentralised direct democracy. We have a long way to go....