United States is in the middle of its first existential crisis since the Civil War. US response to COVID-19 has become one of the worst in the world because of the mistakes we made in 2016. We can’t afford to keep making them, not when failure to restore democracy means that US, EU, and the rest of the world all fall to fascism, religious totalitarianism, and economics of slavery and serfdom. Where on this bottomless spectrum of disaster is your acceptable cost of “burn it down because the candidate I wanted didn’t win the primary?”

In short, we can’t. Voting for policies rather than for politicians is called direct democracy, and there are currently no functioning direct democracies in the world. They are all, including the political system of the United States of America, representative.

Многие мои друзья думают, что конституционный кризис в США их не касается, и с раздражением воспринимают мой поток постов на английском о нюансах взаимоотношений между Трампом, Конгрессом, Верховным Судом, Мюллером и Путиным. Ну не то чтобы совсем не касается. Вот например.