Chris Hedges: Stop Pretending US Is a Functioning Democracy – Consortium News

There are no institutions, including the press, an electoral system, the imperial presidency, the courts or the penal system, that can be defined as democratic. Only the fiction of democracy remains.




By Chris Hedges
ScheerPost.com

There is a fatal disconnect between a political system t

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