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One major flaw of " OUR democracy " is , of course , the capitalist TWO PARTY SYSTEM . Where does the Constitution of the United States authorize only these two parties : the Democratic Party and the Republican Party ?
The mainstream news media pretends perennially that various third parties have nothing serious to contribute to " OUR democracy " .
Since Trump's 2016 election shock the Democrats have been promoting the HATE RUSSIA, New McCarthyism . While President Trump and Republicans -in this Corona virus pandemic- are promoting the new and revised " Yellow Peril ".
As a long time democratic socialist - all too wary of a Stalinist revival on the Left ( a sickening contempt for the FREE SPEECH , FREE THOUGHT tradition of Western Civilization) - I see the need for a contending American Labor Party - which will give millions more Americans of all races and ethnic groups a real say in " OUR democracy " . And much needed ECONOMIC democracy !
My favorite Malcolm X quote : " Show me a capitalist and I will show you a blood sucker " . Not for nothing both Malcolm X and Martin Luther King made a connection between racism and capitalism , between racism and imperialism. Both opposed the criminal Vietnam War.
The list of famous writers and scientists who advocate some non- authoritarian form of socialism is very long . Read Albert Einstein's essay " Why Socialism " .
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