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I included the response I would have sent, were the thread not locked. This is how coward libs argue. They're calling the well-known study by Purdue demonstrating that the US is a oligarchy a "far left news source", for context.
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We've always been a democracy even when the president owned hundreds of slaves or when the U.S. served as the inspiration for Nazi Germany or when the U.S. was engaging in directly massacring indigenous people and stealing their land (goes closer to the present than you think) or when black people were deprived of basic rights and segregated (oh wait that's still happening in Chicago). "If we don't fix the flaws in our democratic institutions" maybe stfu? Nobody gives a shit about whatever "democracy" allows you to massacre millions across the globe and coup popular leaders for your ruling class' business interests. Maybe Amerika is fundamentally flawed and every U.S. politician should be shot (maybe).
Bit of an understatement
Towards a Critique of the Category of Totalitarianism by Domenico Losurdo | See Ch. "Racial state and eugenics: the United States and the Third Reich" (page 22-26 of pdf)
The International Origins of Nazism [archive]