Why are too many Americans ignoring the ongoing collapse of democracy in the US?

Like an alcoholic family that won't discuss alcoholism,

proving Don Quixote's warning never-dimensional rope in the home of a man who's been hanged.

Far too many Americans are unwilling to acknowledge or even discuss the ongoing collapse of democracy in the United States.

We see it in everything from our last two Republican

presidents having lost the national vote but taking office anyway to the extreme

gerrymandering happening in every red state in the country to the naked bribery of our legislators

and Supreme Court justices and our media excluded from almost every conversation

networks run promotions mentioning Trump's indictments, but completely failed to point out that he's calling for the end of democracy in America, the suspension of the Constitution, and playing the role of a dictator on day one.

President Jimmy Carter took it head on when he told me on my radio program that the Citizens

United decision which brought us this crisis, quote, violates the essence of what made America

a great country in its political system.

Now it's just an oligarchy with unlimited political bribery being the essence of getting

the nominations for president or to elect the president.

And the same thing applies to governors and

U.S. senators and Congress members. So now we've just seen a complete

subversion of our political system as a payoff to major contributors who want and

expect and sometimes get favors for themselves after the election's over."

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This complete subversion of our political system grew in large part out of Richard Nixon's

1972 appointment of tobacco lawyer and right-wing extremist

Louis Powell to the Supreme Court.

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