A copycat of the American-style democracy did not have the local conditions to sustain. This is a major reason why more than 20 years of nation-building in Afghanistan crashed to the ground in a matter of weeks. The economic and social realities in a nation should also be taken into consideration. 28, 2021 shows the site of an airstrike conducted by the United States against a planner for the Islamic State (ISIS) in Nangarhar province, Afghanistan. In other words, for a democracy to be viable and resilient, it needs to draw its strength from a country's own culture and history. Every nation is entitled to choose its own path towards democracy. More fundamentally, American democracy is never universally applicable. However, inviting Taiwan to the summit has unmistakably exposed Washington's sinister intention to suppress and split China. The so-called 'Summit for Democracy' is one of Washington's latest moves to play small-clique politics along the ideological demarcation and under the cloak of democracy.

In the eyes of some American decision-makers, democracy can always be expedient whenever necessary.Įxamples abound in history when Washington colluded with what they called dictatorships or even terrorist groups to confront its adversaries, like its reported assistance for Osama bin Laden and his extremist groups in a bid to counter the former Soviet Union in Afghanistan during the Cold War. Washington's democracy push will go under also because it simply takes democracy as a geopolitical instrument for its self-interests. In fact, imposing its own set of values and systems on others irrespective of cultural differences or actual situation on the ground is tantamount to an autocracy. As the world's sole superpower, it flexes its muscles wherever possible it bullies others whenever it sees fit, and it seeks to dictate the world's rules of the road as a matter of course. political scientist Francis Fukuyama wrote early this year, the government in Washington is 'captured by powerful elite groups that distort policy to their own benefit and undermine the legitimacy of the regime as a whole.'Īmerica's undemocratic colors have become increasingly evident on the world stage in recent years. Today, the American democracy is more of a plutocracy, with a government hardly of, by or for the people. And almost a century after its founding, the United States still acquiesced in slavery, and forbade women or African Americans to vote.ĭemonstrators are arrested during a protest against the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, the United States, May 31, 2020. Many of America's founding fathers were slave-owners themselves.

In nature, the American culture is a culture of piracy that advocates pillage and conquest, not equality, freedom or human rights. Primarily, the American-style democracy is anti-democratic.

It is, nevertheless, set to turn out a botched attempt. The upcoming so-called 'Summit for Democracy' offers a clue that the United States is willing to go even further. Still, these man-made catastrophes seem to have hardly prevented the arrogant minds in Washington from persisting in their democratic experiments and pursuit of global domination. However, Washington's reckless interference, be it blunt military intrusions or covert subversions, has kicked countries in the Middle East, Latin America and Eastern Europe into wars and strife, and left them with destructions and deaths. Thus, in the name of promoting democratic values, the United States has over the decades taken many parts of the world as its overseas testing grounds. In Washington's self-centered worldview, a democratic world should be underpinned by America's global supremacy. 9 (Xinhua) - The United States has long been fabricating a myth that it stands as a 'beacon of democracy' for the world, that it is trusted with a 'sacred mission' to democratize everyone else in the American way, and that its style of democracy will prevail for the eons ahead. A Pew Research said in November that 83 percent of their interviewees believe the American democracy is not a good example for other nations, a view largely shared by Americans themselves.īEIJING, Dec. Today, the American democracy is more of a plutocracy, with a government hardly of, by or for the people. Photo taken on Apshows the White House in Washington, D.C., the United States.

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