Is there a better way to govern than a Constitutional Democratic Republic? Maybe, but it only truly and currently exists in the minds of idealistic dreamers and revisionists.
When put into practice; two things appear to prevail.
First, whatever is tried fails, often spectacularly, and pretty near always with the spilling of blood. The one sure thing that Communism produces is innocent victims. Victimhood is the elixir without which the Left can never survive.
Then, all systems are only as good as the people who work within it. When they are rotten at the core, they singlemindedly drag down the system, as they would with any system. The American way is having a bad run right now, no question; but that's because of the folks within who are driven by hypocrisy, and disposed toward anarchy. It is an infection of the mind, as much as the current virus is an infection of the body
This is allowed to happen when the means of information; media and education, are co-opted to give some words fictitious dialectical meaning, and others to be uttered not at all; while instilling wrongs as the right thing to do. Then the core beliefs, and the institutions which foster them, are infiltrated and destroyed from within. We all know this to be true.
Every enumerated right has been corrupted and used in an intentional campaign deliberately and specifically crafted to invalidate those rights. It is the true living legacy of the Vietnam protets.
The rule of law is flouted, those tasked with enforcing that law are hobbled, ridiculed, and chastised; while constructive criticism is shouted down or stifled. This is systemic, and honestly; it is beyond the reach of the voter because the very means for enforcing that vote is corrupted. It can only, and must soon, be reached by more direct means. When justice is the question at the polls; justice delayed is justice denied. We've all seen this happen before our own eyes.
What we see now is a canned insurrection; planned, supplied, trained, funded, and managed by a cadre, within and outside the nation. It has all been poised in abatement while waiting for the convenient trigger.
Never waste a convenient crisis. Better yet, plan for it.
That trigger has arrived, the plan is in play, and unless it's put down, violently if necessary, peacefully if possible; it will be the straw that breaks the Republic's back. It is no spontaneous accident, it is a long refined Communist ploy, and it is our national existence which we are watching run down the gutter.
Eradicating any insurrection can never be complete until those actors are permanently prevented from ever exercising their malice again.
As for Communism, Chairman Mao got something right; (Communist) power comes out of the gun's barrel, and in truth, that's the only real way it can be imposed, votes notwithstanding.
Unfortunately, it may well be that the remedy may also require the barrels of guns.
That would be unfortunate and disastrous because as the fight within would rage, the attacks from outside would follow as sure as the day follows night. It is flatly impossible to believe that's not also a canned response, waiting for the culmination of this insurrection to be used as the next trigger.
In the end there may be something better than what we have; but what we have is still ahead of whatever's been tried as a replacement.
One thing I believe.
Without Democracy, this could have never happened. With it, this was inevitible. Democracy has been the noble experiment. The experiment has been forced to fail. It wasn't an accident because the seeds of failure have always resided within Democracy itself. Democracy assumes that the citizenry will always vote for the good and the necessary; that the heart of the voter will always be positive and decent.
That assumption is false. That assumption has placed the means to destroy the Republic directly into the hands of those whose only goal is to do precisely that.
As for Communism, those who wish to refine their knowledge can make the trip down to Ecuador, or across to China. Then, they can tell us how much better it is than the American way.
Or maybe don't, and just stay there.
Greg