Robert C. Koehler: Democracy: Enemy of the powerful
Perhaps the best possible thing we could acknowledge being is a “divided nation.” Failing to do so justifies — or at least avoids noticing — all manner of violent cruelty and repression in the name of so-called democracy, from the jailing of whistleblowers who reveal U.S. war crimes and global criminality, to the lynching of men and women of color . . . to the waging of endless war.
Oh, and so much more!
“I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the empire it purports to be (because it’s the greatest country in
