RE: FW: The Economist: Why and when to go in

["Mark Jones" <jones.mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> this is all that
> _bourgeois democracy_ is made of. The United States have as much bourgeois
> democracy today as they had yesterday.

Nah, gimme a break.  This democracy is the 'thin and squalid veil' between 
tyranny
and freedom. But it is real, like a hymen is real. Do not fall into the trap of
being cynical about it. This is a matter of life and death and many people will
suffer and some will die because this basis of the social contract has been
breached. Do not make light of its loss; this election was a watershed. Wait and
see. Everything has been changed. It is a date to remember, like 6 August 1914 
or 22
June 1941.

>We should not assume that in the
> consciousness of the average American (whether WASP or OLC -that is "olive
> Latino Chicano"-) there is too much of a doubt as to whether theirs is the 
> most
> democratic of all countries. And _this_ is what matters, politically.

No, no. What matters politically is whether there is consent or no. There no 
longer
is.

> What are you trying to explain us, Mark, that bourgeois democracy cannot run
> without graft, bribery, and cheating? Bourgeois rule _in itself_ does. The day
> we can clearly state "Americans no longer live in democracy" will be the day
> when these beautiful rules of the political game are replaced either with an
> open faced dictatorship, or a revolution.

This election disenfranchised the American electorate. There is no precedent for
such a thing in American history. The fact that democracy is hypocrisy, a sham,
corrupt, is a covenant with greed, etc, changes nothing. The failure of 
democracy is
still a great disaster and a great tribulation. When it is lost, everything 
else is
lost too, and not just the hypocrisy etc which is always its handmaiden, but is 
not
its essence. Do not deride democracy, that is a political error. Without 
democracy,
there cannot be bourgeois civil society, social peace, culture or, in the end,
production.

>the political scene in the USA does not seem to have
> changed _that_ much.

But it has, it has.

contumaciously,

mark