Class struggle could tip Lebanon over the edge
I hate it when my people support America as the Gold standard of democracy. They seem to forget that America was never a true democracy, it was only ever a democracy for the wealthy and it was and remains a highly structured, ideologically rigid absolutist regime for the poor and for those who are ethnically and religiously different, i.e. not white Anglo Saxon protestants. The political system in the US is not easily accessible by the poor, running for election is not something an ordinary salaried person can contemplate without support from a wealthy patron. The concentration of wealth at the very top of society is increasing poverty across the board in the US. The US educational system and its justice system, which uses the law to send the poor to jail, keeps the working people beaten down and docile. US democracy is increasing disaffection among the masses in the US and is actually a threat to global economic stability should a revolution break out in the US! And yet so...