American democracy is no democracy!

LAWRENCE LESSIG
Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership
Biography
Lawrence Lessig is the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School. Prior to rejoining the Harvard faculty, Lessig was a professor at Stanford Law School, where he founded the school’s Center for Internet and Society, and at the University of Chicago. He clerked for Judge Richard Posner on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals and Justice Antonin Scalia on the United States Supreme Court. Lessig serves on the Board of the AXA Research Fund, and on the advisory boards of Creative Commons and the Sunlight Foundation. He is a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Association, and has received numerous awards, including the Free Software Foundation’s Freedom Award, Fastcase 50 Award and being named one of Scientific American’s Top 50 Visionaries. Lessig holds a BA in economics and a BS in management from the University of Pennsylvania, an MA in philosophy from Cambridge, and a JD from Yale.

American democracy is no democracy!

https://youtu.be/PJy8vTu66tE (Our democracy no longer represents the people. Here's how we fix it | Larry Lessig | TEDxMidAtlantic)

https://youtu.be/rHTBQCpNm5o (How the Net destroyed democracy | Lawrence Lessig | TEDxBerlinSalon)


For far too long, the US democracy has been touted as the ideal foundation of democracy for the rest of the world to adopt.

And the war-waging US has thus, since ending World War ll, become arrogant and believes the rest of the world must use its style of democracy as the yardstick for true democracy.

The democracy propaganda has also been planted and influenced by the international media which are majority-controlled by the US until today.

Even in the 21st Century digital world and era, the US continue to dominate but its global influence is slowly but surely diminishing due to China and Russia or the China-Russia Combo.

Take a look at this Facebook posting:

"Deva Saveri The last US election has expose how corrupted US is where the deep state and wall street greedy longing for WAR where money to be made out of WAR, didn't we witness launching of 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles with an estimated value of $100 million whereby share market induct went up? US President must change its foreign policy NOT to allow deep state to control him and the white house. Very valuable lesson to learn via ~https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJy8vTu66tE(sic)

So, are you a staunch believer of American democracy? You believe the American democracy represents the people?

If you still believe in American democracy, I Love Malaysia-China Silk Road urges you to view the above two video clip links … the videos have registered more than half a million views.

After viewing the video clips featuring Lawrence Lessig, a Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School, can anyone blame China for innovating the US-style of democracy for Hong Kong?

Most certainly not the US!
Cold War Civil Rights Race and the Image of American Democracy
Mary L. Dudziak
In 1958, an African-American handyman named Jimmy Wilson was sentenced to die in Alabama for stealing two dollars. Shocking as this sentence was, it was overturned only after intense international attention and the interference of an embarrassed John Foster Dulles. Soon after the United States' segregated military defeated a racist regime in World War II, American racism was a major concern of U.S. allies, a chief Soviet propaganda theme, and an obstacle to American Cold War goals throughout Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Each lynching harmed foreign relations, and "the Negro problem" became a central issue in every administration from Truman to Johnson … for more, go to https://press.princeton.edu/titles/9560.html

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