American democracy has encountered both internal and external failures

Original title: American democracy encountered double failures at home and abroad
Xinhua news agency, Beijing, January 18
Xinhua News Agency reporter
"We are not an example that the world can copy. On the contrary, the United States is a failed democracy." Lawrence Lessig, a professor at Harvard University, recently lamented.
In the past year, the United States, which boasts itself as a "beacon of democracy", has been plagued by chaos and suffered double failures at home and abroad: the riots on Capitol Hill at the beginning of the year exposed the vicious party strife and social tear in the United States, completely fading the false "halo" of American democracy; In August, the United States hastily withdrew its troops from Afghanistan to create a humanitarian disaster, which shows that it is impossible to impose American democracy on other countries.
These failures have made the international community more and more aware that American democracy has brought more pain and disaster to the world by safeguarding the special interests of the American elite at home and the world hegemony of the United States at abroad.
Domestic: democracy is in the abyss
Former US President Jimmy Carter recently wrote in an article reflecting on the riots on Capitol Hill that American democracy is in danger and the country is on the edge of an "expanding abyss".
There have been riots on Capitol Hill for more than a year, but the bipartisan struggle in the United States has intensified. Democrats led the establishment of the "Special Committee for investigating the riots on Capitol Hill" in the house of Representatives, rejecting the candidates nominated by the minority party, which is unprecedented in the history of American politics; Many Republican dominated states have passed laws one after another to give the legislature the power to intervene in elections. These laws may make it easier to question or even deny the election results in the future.
A large number of Americans are also worried about the American democratic system. According to the public opinion survey released by Harvard University last December, 39% of young Americans believe that the American democratic system is "in trouble", 13% believe that the United States is a "Failed Democracy", and only 7% believe that the American democratic system is "healthy". According to Juan Antonio sacaluga, a Spanish expert on international issues, the Biden government's commitment to restoring full democracy seems to be an irony after nearly a year in power.
Today, Division has become the biggest "feature" of American politics. The two parties are tit for tat on gun control, social welfare, government debt and many other issues. COVID-19 continues to wreak havoc. There are more than 65 million confirmed cases in the United States, and even epidemic prevention policies involving people's lives and safety have become bargaining chips.
Experts pointed out that over time, the American democratic system has gradually alienated and degenerated and become riddled with holes. The Capitol Hill riots are just a concentrated outbreak of social contradictions under the American democratic system. Francis Fukuyama, an American political scholar, recently wrote on the website of the New York Times that since the mid-1990s, American politics has become increasingly polarized and prone to a long-term stalemate, resulting in the inability of the government to perform its basic functions. There are obvious problems in the American system, including the influence of money on politics, the increasingly misplaced electoral system and democratic choice, but the United States seems unable to reform itself.
Thomas Homer Dixon, a Canadian scholar, published an article on the website of the global mail in Canada, saying that the economic, racial and social gap in the United States has exacerbated ideological polarization. The left and right are isolated and despised each other, so the government is paralyzed, which will increase various gaps.
Abroad: war spreads disaster
For a long time, the United States has been waging wars in the world in the name of exporting democratic values for the purpose of safeguarding its hegemony, which has brought great disasters to many countries.
In 2001, the United States sent troops to Afghanistan in the name of "counter-terrorism". After rapidly overthrowing the Taliban regime, it implemented the American democratic model in the country. Since then, Afghanistan's internal contradictions have intensified, the war has continued, and the people's lives have withered. In 2021, the United States finally chose to leave and leave a chicken feather in Afghanistan. The United Nations World Food Program warned at the end of last year that about 98% of Afghans do not have enough food and that Afghanistan is facing "avalanche of hunger and poverty".
"Afghans are very disappointed with the United States. They only leave war, destruction and poverty." A political analyst Mohamed daneshjo said.
Iraq also suffered from the disaster of the United States forcibly exporting American democracy. In 2003, the United States blatantly invaded Iraq by bypassing the United Nations Security Council on the grounds of the existence of weapons of mass destruction. In an interview with Xinhua, musana Mashan mazrui, a professor at mustan silya University in Baghdad, said that Iraq was once a rich country. After the U.S. invasion, the whole country became full of crisis and chaos, lack of basic social services, and people struggled to live.
More than 200000 Iraqi civilians have died and about 2.5 million have become refugees as a result of the long war. The United States led coalition forces also used a large number of depleted uranium and white phosphorus bombs in Iraq, victimizing many civilians. Mustafa Razak, an Iraqi college student, said that the United States has always claimed to bring "democracy" and "freedom" to Iraq, but there is no doubt that it is false democracy and freedom. The United States has brought only terrorism, chaos and destruction.
Syria is also a victim of the United States trampling on the sovereignty of other countries under the banner of "democratic transformation". The United States funded the "white helmet" organization to fabricate evidence of Syria's possession of chemical weapons in an attempt to find reasons for interfering in the situation in Syria. According to zain Saleh, a resident of Damascus, Syria, the United States is a thief with the slogan of "democracy". He said that the United States not only illegally occupied Syrian territory, they also stole oil and wheat from this land. Such a country is absolutely not qualified to talk about democracy, nor can it define democracy for any country.
Chris hutchis, a former US war correspondent, once wrote that the United States has suffered the same failures in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria as in Vietnam and Cuba in the pastBut they still turn a blind eye to their own decline, weakness and loss of reason. (participating reporters: Zhu Ruiqing, Dong Yalei, Zheng Yihan, Shi Xiantao, Deng Xianlai) (end)