Collective Self-Delusion: Let's Stop Pretending America Is a Functioning Democracy

* There is a fatal disconnect between a political system that promises democratic equality and freedom while carrying out socioeconomic injustices that result in grotesque income inequality and political stagnation.*

As long as rich people can effectively manipulate elections, we effectively have plutocracy rather than democracy. That's why I have called so many times for Americans to recognize plutocracy as the enemy and fight to restore democracy.