More proof that there are no fascists

[alice wellintown]

> Do our secret trials and executive killings set a good example of how Democracy should operate?

This "our" you speak of is the USA. So, implicit in this question is
the conservative idea that the USA is an exceptional nation state that
sets examples for other nations in the world. But this conservative
claim is propaganda. Sure, there was a time when this claim had some
truth in it, but post-Vietnam and Watergate it has little serious
calim to truth, and surely after 9-11, few if any serious people,
people who understand the complexity of the world, make such claims or
employ them implicitly in questions hey expect others to take
seriously. but, then, you seem to be saying something here, so maybe
it is that Democracy doesn't work or that the USA is not a Democracy
or not a Democracy worth copying or looking up to.

So, we can say that the USA is not a Democracy. That wuz easy.

Now what?

We can still get information about its evildoings and we can bash them
without fear,

So, better than most nations in the world, but still not worthy of emulatiion.

OK, so the President is a killer. Why does this shock you, Joe? You
seem like a guy who knows more than his high school textbook taught
him about history and governments.

I kike Obama; voted for him twice. I don't like the drones or the NJ
Prisons or the dress his wife wore to the party or the fact that I
have lost so many, so many, Joe, and still, in harms way are so many
so precious to me, but I can live with him.

Demecracy is nice word. ANd being the USA is a complex thing.

We doin OK. Not bad, Getting better.

The glass is half full.

Dig?