US in dire need of help in democratisation process

After decades of lectures, trainings and admonitions on democracy and its values by Americans, it is now clear that the US is in dire need of help in its democratisation, perhaps more than any other country. This, because no country has touted as loudly its democratic credentials, asserting itself as the world’s leading democracy, even when that democracy has not worked for millions of black, brown, poor and indigenous peoples.

For anyone who has followed American politics, the idea of “American exceptionalism” and an ability to “self-correct” seems hollow given the glaring weaknesses in the structure of its democracy, whose contradictions are now fully exposed.