UK & US: How the Oligarchies Posing as Democracies have Been Exposed

What went wrong with what were once touted as examples of democracies?

Short answer: neither the US nor UK is a democracy in name only

To serve the economic, social, security & welfare of all the people – is subordinated to what will play well enough for enough voters to ensure a governing party’s re-election

https://bylinetimes.com/2023/09/05/britain-and-the-us-how-the-oligarchies-posing-as-democracies-have-been-exposed/

#democracy #oligarchs #UK #America #elections #DemocracyTheatre #government #corruption

#Austria 🇦🇹wants to end EU-accession talks with #Turkey 🇹🇷 .

Considering Turkey's see-saw evolution on #democracy and #ruleoflaw & its position on religious matters , I agree.

My periodisk objections:
1) 🇹🇷 fails to qualify as a democracy
2) 🇹🇷 acceps no diversity, cf its treatment of Kurds & other minorities
3) Religion should not mix with politics. Looking at e.g. how 🇹🇷 society reacts to #quranburning in 🇸🇪 🇩🇰 ....

#EUEnlargement
https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/austria-wants-to-end-eu-accession-talks-with-turkey/ 

This might give you ideas about more things that need to be changed in order for the US to have a #democracy.

https://youtu.be/bJdXkR8e_a8?si=USBuaY3FiJDZO7TF

BREAKING: Atlanta City Councilwoman Keisha Sean Waites, who voted NOT to authorize $67 million in "Cop City" funds, posts a statement that she will support colleague efforts or propose legislation to put a "Cop City" referendum on the November ballot next Monday (h/t Sean Keenan)

#atlanta #politics #democracy #environment #police #news

‘Britain and the US: How the Oligarchies Posing as Democracies have Been Exposed’

"What has gone wrong with what were once touted as leading examples of democracies?

It would take an entire book to answer that fully. A short answer is that neither the #US nor the #UK is a #democracy in much more than name.

In fact, they are oligarchies – the US a timocratic #plutocracy, the UK a civilian version of a stratiocracy"
https://bylinetimes.com/2023/09/05/britain-and-the-us-how-the-oligarchies-posing-as-democracies-have-been-exposed/

*news #economics #politics

September 11, 1973 - the Presidential Palace of #Chile is strafed and bombed by #rightwing forces in the coup against socialist #Chilean President Salvador Allende. The coup, supported and assisted by the #UnitedStates, ended #democracy and a period of social progress in Chile and unleashed nearly two decades of #dictatorship, terror, and death on the #country. The perpetrator of the coup, Augusto #Pinochet, was shielded from consequences after he left power by the United States and Great #Britain.

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Chile president gives staunch defence of democracy, 50 years after Pinochet coup | Chile | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/11/chile-president-coup-allende-pinochet-1973

In must be remembered that the coup succeeded largely thanks to covert support from the US.

#History #Chile #Democracy #AmericanEmpire

The problem of food production has been solved, one of the great achievements of the agrarian reform. But the ancient fruit trees have not been abandoned and have a new function. Fruit picking campaigns are spaces for empathy. Spaces for sharing and openness are promoted. The older ones pass on #democracy values to the younger ones, simulating small elections, and the more experienced ones share #softtechnology tools with everyone. Everyone contributes to a better #solarpunk society.

"Republicans politicized the courts because the courts stood in the way of their racist, anti-gay, forced-birth agenda. If Democrats refuse to fight back, that agenda will be the law of the land, and elections will become the political force that doesn’t really matter."

~ Elie Mystal

#courts #judiciary #democracy #Wisconsin #impeachment #Republicans #Democrats

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/democrats-impeach-judges-elie-mystal/

That all the presidential libraries from Hoover to I guess #Obama joined together to warn us about the unraveling of #democracy and #respect for diversity in the #UnitedStates is a really big deal and when I start thinking it's just me, they remind me that we really are in #danger.
https://youtu.be/Pb9iccE71rU?si=rOkTedGLum3enyPO

The best thing I read on the anniversary of 9/11 by far. It feels cathartic to read. But it's also so, so sad. #Democracy https://armoxon.substack.com/p/never-remember?nthPub=2701?utm_source=werd.io&utm_campaign=mastodon&utm_channel=mastodon

Hello! Without #LandBack and #Reparations #democracy remains fragile due to the #profits of #injustices from #HumanRightsViolations in #land and #labor by #GQP #supremacists empowered with #falsehoods that underlie the needs #AbolishTheElectoralCollege and #EndTheFilibuster

#EndTheDeathPenalty #AbolishThePrisons #EndQualifiedImmunity #RestoreGenerationalWealth lost to #Redlining

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2023-09-10/new-poll-finds-california-voters-resounding-oppose-paying-reparations

When you need to destroy democrats and poets, you can't aim to be more than a piece of shit.

#Allende #democracy #poetry

Democracy in Azerbaijan is in decline.

Over the past 11 years, Azerbaijan's aggregated Freedom In the World score has declined by -14 points.

View the country report here: https://freedomhouse.org/country/Azerbaijan/freedom-world/2023

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Here ia a complete list of countries available: https://freedomhouse.org/countries/freedom-world/scores

#democracy #DemocracyTracker #curbal

Never Forget 11/09/1973

The day when the #usa #bombed the #chile and overthrew a #democracy

Rest in peace Salvador Allende

#neverforget

And I personally promise, that I'll continue research #ProjectCybersyn

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Chilean_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat

#11_9_1973 #9_11 #911Anniversary #911NeverForget

Over the past 10 years, Azerbaijan's aggregated Freedom In the World score has gone from 9 to 9 points.

View the country report here: https://freedomhouse.org/country/Azerbaijan/freedom-world/2023

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#democracy #DemocracyTracker #curbal

"A new liberal tilt to the court is driving Republican fears of losing their large legislative majorities, which were built under some of the most gerrymandered political maps in the country."

#Wisconsin #Republicans #gerrymandering #democracy
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"Wisconsin Republicans have enjoyed outsize control of the Legislature in one of the most closely divided states for a dozen years. Maintaining that power is now at the heart of a drama involving the state Supreme Court that has national political implications."

~ Scott Bauer and David A. Lieb

#Wisconsin #Republicans #gerrymandering #democracy
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https://apnews.com/article/wisconsin-supreme-court-impeachment-republicans-gerrymandering-legislature-21fc8c3cf99623a379cbf4dd01ed0b8c

"It's full of racists and trolls but that's where the people are, so I posted it there. Then someone commented somethibg awful and it all got taken down".

Said someone who posted a climate related event announcement on a community Facebook page.

Corporate Social Media is a failure and a danger.

#dumpZuck #dumpMusk #DeleteFacebook #society #democracy #community #PortAlberni