aljazeera | The Democratic Party, therefore, rules over this false claim to
democracy the same way the Guardian Council of octogenarian Super
Mullahs rules over the Islamic Republic.
In other words, the free and fair formation of political
parties that is supposed to be the finest fruit of a democracy has
paradoxically degenerated into the most powerful impediment to
democracy.
The question is: What is the result of these undemocratic "closed primaries"?
These "closed primaries" are the bottlenecks of a closed
political culture, preventing the possibility of any liberating
breakthrough into a foreclosed political system.
At the heart of this imperial republic that effectively rules
the world with its military might (not with any moral courage or
political legitimacy), we have an electoral process that systematically
bars any critical judgment of its own citizens to disrupt its mindless
militarism. American citizens are as much trapped inside this corrupt
system as people around the globe are at the mercy of its fighter jets
and drone attacks.
These two parties, Republican and Democratic, are today
functioning like two identical but competing Orwellian Ministries of
Truth - systematically, consistently, unabashedly disallowing any
critical thinking or nonviolent democratic action to enter and disrupt
the always-already rigged election.
