Opinion | Collective Self-Delusion: Let's Stop Pretending America Is a Functioning Democracy

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Opinion | Collective Self-Delusion: Let's Stop Pretending America Is a Functioning Democracy
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'A functioning democracy could easily dispatch Donald Trump and his doppelgängers. A failed democracy and bankrupt liberalism assures their ascendancy.'

dismisses the idea that Hitler—gifted in oratory and political opportunism but poorly educated and vulgar—mesmerized and seduced the German people. The Germans, he writes, supported Hitler and the"grotesque, marginal figures" surrounding him because he embodied the pathologies of a diseased society, one beset by economic collapse and hopelessness. Voegelin defines stupidity as a"loss of reality.

Donald Trump called the speech the most"vicious, hateful and divisive speech ever delivered by an American president" and attacked Biden as"an enemy of the state." Biden's frontal assault widens the divide. It solidifies a system where voters do not vote for what they want, since neither side delivers anything of substance, but against what they despise. Biden did not address our socioeconomic crisis or offer solutions. It was political theater.

Our corporate overlords and militarists prefer the decorum of George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Joe Biden. Anti-politics masquerades as politics. No sooner does one money-drenched election cycle end, the next one begins, perpetuating what

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