I’m seeing a lot of commentators arguing that the tail is wagging the dog, downplaying the USA’s role in all this. Israel is a creation of the West and this war against Iran is in line with everything the USA has done over the centuries. Let’s not act like poor USA is being bullied by Israel.
Secondly, many are blaming Trump. This is classic scapegoating and only serves to distract people from the fact that the ENTIRE US government is corrupt. By pointing the finger at an individual, they are reinforcing the lie that democracy exists in the USA and that people only need to vote the right person in next time.
You do realize that an apartheid state literally is based on denying democracy to entire populations right? Sure white supremacists get to vote. That’s not a democracy. That’s rule by an occupying force.
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Yeah, you’re just being ahistorical.
The US didn’t vote for apartheid. They were an apartheid regime run by minoritarian patriarchal white supremacists to start with. They were not governed by “the people”. Then, the property owning slave owning patriarchal white supremacists seceded from the monarchy and maintained the apartheid regime, the oppression of women, and the genocide of the inhabitants of the land.
NONE of that was democratic. None of that was put to vote. And even if it had been put to vote only the oppressors were allowed to vote.
Demos - the people
The people, the vast majority of people were oppressed and not participants in government.
You can argue semantics and say that because the land owning slave owning patriarchal white supremacists were voting among themselves on the best ways to commit genocide, mass murder, mass rape, mass torture, all for their own minority profits that this was a “democracy”. But, that’s not what the word means. Democracy isn’t voting. Democracy is self-governance of the people by the people.
America has never been that.