By: Harry McGuire
These days, you can’t turn on the TV to watch the news or a talk show without 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 the US? 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 obstacles 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, in the White House, meaning former President Trump and his 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 the latter is still limping along trying to find it’s way…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 and many other states.
I got it! Maybe democracy means to sit back and relax and let the very small and ungodly country of Israel dictate to us what to do and how much money and weapons’ we should send them to kill innocent Palestinians and steel their land and resources and claim it’s self defense.
Does democracy mean we should declare war on another country like Iraq to protect Israel? Make no mistake about it, the war in Iraq was not about weapons of mass destruction, like George W. Bush and his gang claim, and it’s not about the oil. It’s about protecting Israel from Saddam Hussein. This unjust war cost the US $1.9 Trillion and 4,400 dead soldiers and 32,000 insured. The Israeli loss is a big fat ZERO.
Before we talk about democracy and try to jam it down the throats of other people in the world like what George Bush and Dick Cheney did in Iraq, we should have one.