Oh, we live in a democracy…a plutocracy of Robber Barons and assorted war profiteers. And when we talk about bringing democracy to Iraq or Afpakistan or whereever, that is code for American Imperialism for its undeclared Empire. Maybe its time to come clean about who we really are, and what we really believe in: backroom deals, economic slavery, fuzzy law, convenience, brute force, environmental plunder, ignorance, rogue police states, anti-intellectualism, greed, crime, monotheism, monolingualism, competition, sexual repression, and Jesus. Yeah, Jesus is gonna save all of us…from hell…but what do you call this life?

One of the most important ways that power structures delude the people they rule is by using Big Words that have precisely contrary meanings.  ‘Democracy’ is such a word. In the US its proclaimed meaning is ‘rule by the people’ while its operative meaning is ‘rule by a capitalist plutocracy.’ 

The plotociracy owns and in other ways control the learned and mass media and other truth organs, and through them and their money the two political parties as well.  US operative Democracy is allowing the people to elect one of two candidates nominated and vetted by the plutocracy, both of whom claim to represent the people.

Consequently we can get the absurditeis that routinely appear in the American mainstream and progressive media. That we are imposing Democracy on a population by killing over a million of their people and making refugees out of five million.  And that the US War on Terrorism is intended to impose Democracy. 

If a foreign leader supports US policy, he is Democratic or at least ‘Modereate.’  If he opposes it, even if he is elected in fair elections, he is a dictator or Terrorist.

The obscurantism of the US mainstream and liberal truth, makes it almost impossible to communicate clearly in a simple way about political and social reality.  The double meaning of the Big Words creates a doubletruth which obfuscates clear political and social discourse.  It leads to the famous concept of ORWELL, doublthink.  This is the ability to hold two incompatible thoughts in one’s head at the same time, and believe both of them.

So the population simply turns its back on the power system and confines itself to personal life.  So the common interests of the popualation are not promoted, and as the power system ages, class inequeality and power inequality increases between the population and power system.  This is what has happened historically in the US.

Democracy imposed; what’s wrong with that picture?  Your’s is going to be a “democratic” state if we’ve got to force feed it, shove it down your throats.

First sentence should qualify this article to go under the heading “Comedy”.

This isn’t about democracy in other countries, it is still that goddamn monster milton friedman’s ‘unfettered market’ markets in play, in play with all the criminals inherent in any economic system that is unregulated, evidenced by all those “threats, intrigue, back-room deal-making, protests, political paralysis and, increasingly, popular discontent”. Imperial america’s handy work still blazing along at full speed. The few raping the many for profits and fun.