Posted by: GeetMaiJawaafDiu? October 23, 2020
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At this juncture, most of the systems governing the US are broken including the much-tauted system called 'Democracy'. Human beings, in general, have always been cunning enough to bend any system to their own or their group's benefit. I am sure Socrates would beg to differ regarding the does-no-wrong attribution of Democracy. For instance, if 51 blind people out of 100 people declare that "the color of milk is blue and not white', the rest of the 49 people have to accept that as a truth until the next election cycle.
As the influential presidential candidate, Andrews Yang, expressedly said, "Trump is a [merely] sympton of a disease [inflicting the country]". Thus, to be completely fair, was America perfectly functional before Trump entered the White House in 2016? Remember the gridlocks between Democrats and Republicans in Congress about government shut-downs emanating from debt-ceiling crises, just to name an instance.
All in all, Democracy is broken as it allows career politicans to run the country and the World and incompetent candidates are able to find their way to critical leadership positions. Talking about capitalism, it is broken too as the gap between rich and poor widens at faster rate while homelessness and open-defecation plague first-world cities. The welfare system is also pushed to this tipping scale. At each of its extreme, Communism fails, Democracy fails, Fascism fails, Monarchy fails, and Theocracy fails too. Then the question arises, what might work? That's when a tenet of Buddhist philosophy emerges - the Middle Path.