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Trump Is Gunning for a Revolution of Despotism

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Alan James Strachan
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 � Trump's entranced, largely authoritarian voting block, loyal to a fault even as he relentlessly guts their lives and well-being.

Sadly, prior even to Trump, the US presidential race already had devolved into a tightly controlled in-game contested by select players, featuring:

 � two political parties, each serving as lap dogs for corporate interests:

 � millionaire candidates who long ago sold their souls to the largest bidders,

 � an electoral college repeatedly thwarting the will of the people,

 � gerrymandering and corrupted voter registration policies designed to pervert and deny democracy, and

 � carefully controlled, sanitized debates.

These are but some of the features of what the great political theorist Sheldon Wolin referred to as "managed democracy.' Managed, not as democracy is intended - by the will the people - but by wealthy elites pulling strings behind the scenes.

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