The US has a government?.. US democracy in free fall: revolution or civil war?

Source: Former Obama speechwriter explains why most Americans now hold the High Court in such low regard – Alternet.org

The Supreme Court’s Ideological Rulings Are Roiling Us Politics – Just Like When Lincoln and His Republicans Remade the Court To Fit Their Agenda e

The Republican transformation of the federal judiciary in the 1860s and 1870s served the party well in the Civil War. But in the end, Lincoln and Grant’s high court appointments ended up being disastrous for civil rights.

Source: The Supreme Court’s Ideological Rulings Are Roiling Us Politics – Just Like When Lincoln and His Republicans Remade the Court To Fit Their Agenda | Portside

A 50-Year Attack by Right-Wing Corporate Forces Is Leading U.S. Back Towards Civil War

The nation is split, its people are angry. And don’t forget all the guns.

Source: Opinion | A 50-Year Attack by Right-Wing Corporate Forces Is Leading U.S. Back Towards Civil War | Bob Burnett

With the end of Roe, the US edges closer and closer to civil war

The question is no longer whether there will be a civil conflict in America. The question is how the sides will divide, and who will prevail

Source: With the end of Roe, the US edges closer and closer to civil war | Stephen Marche | The Guardian

With the end of Roe, the US edges closer and closer to civil war | Stephen Marche

The idea of The Last Revolution can be useful here. The fight for democracy is real yet misleading: the US is not a democracy but a capitalist oligarchy: the left should be countering the right with the project of real democracy, with a socialist failsafe.