America is yet to acknowledge that it has lost control of world affairs

President Joe Biden welcomes Narendra Modi at the White House in Washington. [BBC]

From July 4, 1776, the United States has gone through high moments of exhilaration and low points of despair. Being inherently anti-democratic, it contradicts its attractive ideals by engaging in domestic and global atrocities. Thomas Jefferson, the brilliant wordsmith of the Declaration of Independence who symbolised the coexistence of freedom for elite white men and slavery for Africans, had no problems helping his female slaves to increase population.

He was not alone in that contradiction. The drafters of the 1787 constitutional structure, being inherently hostile to 'democracy', designed a republican form of government that rejected the idea of ordinary people participating in governance. The same anti-democratic logic applied when the US crafted the United Nations Security Council to be a club of big powers protecting their individual interests against global 'democracy' at the General Assembly.