These days, you can’t turn on the TV to watch the news or a talk show whithout hearing democracy this and democracy that. I am having trouble understanding what democracy means in this country. Would somebody please explain to me what democracy means in this country? I don’t mean the definition of the word, I could look that up in the dictionary. I mean, how do we relate the meaning of the word to what’s going on all over the country.
Does democracy mean putting obsticles in the way of minorities to vote like they did in Georgia? OR …
Does democracy mean drawing lines by the republican party to gain the most seats with the least number of votes in a process called Redistricting or Gerrymandering? OR…
Maybe it means looking the other way when a group of thugs attack the capital wanting to kill or badly hurt the law makers. A small number of those hoodlums were caught and prosecuted. I refer to those people as the body of the snake: however, the head of the snake, the people in the White House and their goons are still unpunished despite of their refusal to cooperate with the investigating committee in the House of Representatives. They were referred to the justice department for sentencing but nothing happened so far. OR…
It could mean tossing a black man in prison for many many years for a crime he did not commit even after he was proved to be innocent by his lawyer and the district attorney who prosecuted him in the first place but the governor of the state was too busy to issue a pardon to release him from prison as what happened in Missouri. OR…
Denying women to have control over their own bodies like what happened in Texas.
Before we talk about democracy and try to jam it down the throats of other people in the world like we did in Iraq, we should have one, here in this country.