The US Democratic National Convention (DNC), as opposed to epitomizing the best of democratic ideals from the US, a country that styles itself as the biggest democracy globally, ended up displaying Washington’s dictatorship on the world. ‘Democracy’ ended up appearing as a guise for broken internal governance that cannot deliver benefits to US citizens. Washington cannot allow any government to serve citizens, for instance in Gadhafi’s Libya, or Mosaddegh’s Iran.

US Leading the World, but where?

The DNC-2024 not only introduced Kamala Harris as democrat’s presidential flag bearer for the November elections, but also hit headlines for being accompanied by a mobile abortions and vasectomy clinic, and occurring amidst intense protests decrying Joe Biden’s aiding of Israeli Genocide. Both spontaneous abortions and Genocide in Gaza now -and many reckless wars before – are the most prominent products of the US’s leading the world, even as Speakers at the DNC including the former and the current US presidents, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden respectively insisted that Washington should continue leading the world. Therefore, these speakers endorsed wanton destruction of life in Gaza, like in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and Vietnam so long as the US mints money out of such events, even if the world’s majority dissents at the United Nations (UN). Any setup in which a minority dictates on the majority cannot be described as democratic, and Biden and Obama, who lead the US Democratic Party, ought to know that. Ironically, both inadvertently pushed for US dictatorship on the world’s majority in an event where American citizens should have canvassed how they should be governed. While Obama and Biden shouted platitudes of how Washington should lead the world, they declared inability to use executive power to improve US citizen’s wellbeing, and only promised to fight unspecified forces that seem to operate above the........

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