Danny Shaw: U.S. democracy is in fact U.S. hypocrisy

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00:00to ask you, we're talking about a system, an electoral system, that has some problems

00:06in representation in terms of not representing the actual direct popular vote.

00:14How can we understand this system?

00:15Yeah, thank you for the solidarity.

00:18Many of us in the United States and the world know professors as educated as professionals

00:24have been retaliated against just because we stand against genocide.

00:29This system is the history lesson and I think it's a necessary history lesson because most

00:33people in the United States could not explain what you all at Telesur just explained.

00:39This is something that we inherited from the system of slavery in 1787 and it means that

00:46small states have a disproportionate amount of representation in the Senate as well.

00:53So a tiny state like a Wyoming or an Iowa would get two senators just like a massive

00:58state like California or Texas.

01:01It's also very discouraging because if there's a Republican voter in New York or Massachusetts,

01:07the Northeast states, the New England states, these are always consistently historically

01:11blue states or Democratic states.

01:14So if you're a Republican in those states, what's your motivation to even participate

01:18and vice versa if you're in Alabama or Mississippi which are historically Republican?

01:24So for me it's mighty curious, the United States, the government which touts itself

01:29as the greatest democracy in the world, which has invaded Panama, invaded Grenada, invaded

01:34the Dominican Republic, invaded Vietnam, well you see a pattern, it's invaded basically

01:38every country in the world in the name of democracy.

01:42And then when we actually reflect, where is our democracy?

01:46Most of us in the U.S. fail to really understand what the electoral college means.

01:52There's always petitions and demands that we transcend and evolve beyond this system,

01:59but year after year it's politics as usual, and in fact this is an anti-politics or anti-participatory,

02:07anti-democracy.

02:08So it's important for the world at large to know the contradictions of U.S. democracy

02:14which Malcolm X always reminded us was in fact U.S. hypocrisy.

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