17 June

You can see here that the rhetorical nonsense in the US about democracy isn’t how the US actually behaves. And that’s not to criticise how the US acts, it’s to criticise the rhetorical nonsense. Nobody who governs anything, from a soccer club to a full country, does it by getting all of the members or citizens to actually run anything. They just pick somebody to do it for them. All countries operate in exactly the same way, all the systems we pretend they use like capitalism, socialism, communism, democracy, authoritarianism, are adult fairytales. They’re all feudal monarchies, with a king or equivalent sitting at the top of the status hierarchy, and with status hierarchies cascading through the rest of society. Each has their own barons or aristocracy, what people now call oligarchs. The King always has a court.