The Real Reason America Doesn’t Have Gun Control

The basic rules of American democracy provide a veto over national policy to a minority of the states.

Source: The Real Reason America Doesn’t Have Gun Control – The Atlantic

Only Mass Protest Can Save Abortion Rights

One of the open secrets of US-American “democracy” is that the USA is not a democracy and (by the way) was never intended to be.

Source: Only Mass Protest Can Save Abortion Rights – CounterPunch.org

Democracy Is Ailing. Here’s How We Can Start Reviving It

There’s a widespread pessimism in the US about the state of society, but building diverse democracies is extremely hard.

Source: Democracy Is Ailing. Here’s How We Can Start Reviving It

Democracy, Strategy, Modes of Struggle: The High-Stakes Strife in DSA – Convergence

Source: Democracy, Strategy, Modes of Struggle: The High-Stakes Strife in DSA – Convergence

Extremism on the abortion front…

Backing women with their backs to the wall is a provocative and dangerous act on the right, and utterly ill-advised: what can’t really happen(moving into the past) is being made to pass by forcing the issue on a majority. The results, along with many other factors, will generate a revolutionary option that could tear the whole politics into civil strife. And the whole legacy here will end by tearing apart the Catholic Church along with the Christian religion itself.
The larger picture is that a settled ‘democracy’ no longer has a higher court, and is a rogue state.
In a general mix of calamities, capitalist depradations, imperialism, ecological calamity, and racist degeneration a whole state is under check with a next move moving into social insurrection.

Reproductive rights supporters vowed to fight against the ban that begins at fertilization and, like legislation in Texas, “creates a bounty-hunting scheme” for enforcement.

Source: Oklahoma Lawmakers Pass Strictest US Abortion Ban While Roe Still Stands

Myth Busters: Why We Need To Expand the Supreme Court | Portside

Two decades of divisive Court decisions have threatened our representative democracy, weakened the fundamental right to vote, undermined racial justice, and favored the interests of the wealthiest corporations and individuals at the expense of the rights of working people. It’s time to change the Court.

Source: Myth Busters: Why We Need To Expand the Supreme Court | Portside

RSF’s 2022 World Press Freedom Index : a new era of polarisation | RSF

Within democratic societies, divisions are growing as a result of the spread of opinion media following the “Fox News model” and the spread of disinformation circuits that are amplified by the way social media functions. At the international level, democracies are being weakened by the asymmetry between open societies and despotic regimes that control their media and online platforms while waging propaganda wars against democracies. Polarisation on these two levels is fuelling increased tension.

Source: RSF’s 2022 World Press Freedom Index : a new era of polarisation | RSF