Democracy Bypassed
6th December 2021
Americans have not ended democracy as such. We have instead allowed powerful persons and institutions to simply ignore it. The FBI, EPA, Twitter, universities, large corporations, and your local county school board increasingly follow their own ideological ends even if (or maybe especially if) it contradicts popular will and culture. The tiresome and obligatory comparisons to the fall of the Roman Empire miss the mark in many ways. Perhaps the better comparison is to Florence under the Medicis.