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Historically, democracy only allowed free males who were land owners to vote. A minority.

In the last few generations the wealthy have come up with clever ideas to hold onto power while expanding the vote to the majority.

So, I think Democracy is defined by periodically changing some of the government by the voting of some people. And the votes must be counted in front of witnesses.

This is my definition of democracy only; and not me arguing for it, personally I don’t think it works well enough

Yes, as practiced it’s mostly theatrics and the working class does not take power due to many controls and mental conditioning.

Democracy gives the illusion of control.

But many of these countries are by definition democracies

It could have been worse. Could a Trump delegation actually be productive and not sabotage the summit?

The USA was not going to help after the orange menace gained power. It could have been worse other than non participation.

I’m grateful he did not send a delegation headed by the someone who doubts carbon dioxide exits. Or one who thinks climate change helps bring the second coming of Christ.

This can go four ways:

• she remains jailed;
• she goes free and nothing happens;
• used to bring down some democrats like the male Clinton, but not Obama;
• or somebody is made to lie about Obama and he arrests that ex president.

It’s like watching an online version of Brexit, without the referendum

Raccoon (trash panda)

Trump is terrible. His family is horrible no good people, and using politics to enrich family and friends is unethical.

That said, the only thing I see different from other presidents is less hiding and less being clever about the enrichment.

Which is a huge issue; because in my experience one can tell the level of graft in a government by using the visible crimes, usually small things. The actual crimes can be ten times more than the scandals. Like an iceberg

So when we see public crimes that are more often and more serious: that is a lot of new graft.. tens of billions of USD at least

“Barbarian horde” backed by a foreign empire

As with many things it’s about personal wealth and power. Any “defensive” planning and movement ultimately moves money from the working class.

Because of uk-usa relations, I imagine more money went to the American rich than the British wealthy.

Hopium