Speaking of ideologues and ideologies one must address the deeper issue comparing the degree of consolidation of the ideology. It is clear to anyone on the recieving end that the principal difference between the two cases in question is that the United States takes the prize for the degree of consolidation of its ideology. This does not nor should be taken to mean that the US has consolidated in any way shape or form consolidated democracy. Indeed, what passes for "Freedom" and "Democracy" is a whored term signaling the Anglo American way of empire comparable to the meaning of that term whored for the same purpose by the British and French as the self serving culmination of empire, ie "Civilization".
I am not defending the regime that governs Iran, However, I think it a failed intellectual fancy to use the regime that governs the Anglo American empire as any exemplar or measure of democracy. This empire is governed by non too subtle subtle discourses that veil the actual locus of power. And the current elections in New York City are a perfect example. Elections here are a game of self delusions presented as if they address in any equitable manner the benefits of real democracy. The US masks its oppression under a cloak of equal opportunity mass murder in which perpetrators in the halls of government can be Black as well as White, Women as well as Men or Gay as well as Straight. The faces change but not the policies or the vested interests.
Speaking of ideologues and ideologies one must address the deeper issue comparing the degree of consolidation of the ideology. It is clear to anyone on the recieving end that the principal difference between the two cases in question is that the United States takes the prize for the degree of consolidation of its ideology. This does not nor should be taken to mean that the US has consolidated in any way shape or form consolidated democracy. Indeed, what passes for "Freedom" and "Democracy" is a whored term signaling the Anglo American way of empire comparable to the meaning of that term whored for the same purpose by the British and French as the self serving culmination of empire, ie "Civilization".
I am not defending the regime that governs Iran, However, I think it a failed intellectual fancy to use the regime that governs the Anglo American empire as any exemplar or measure of democracy. This empire is governed by non too subtle subtle discourses that veil the actual locus of power. And the current elections in New York City are a perfect example. Elections here are a game of self delusions presented as if they address in any equitable manner the benefits of real democracy. The US masks its oppression under a cloak of equal opportunity mass murder in which perpetrators in the halls of government can be Black as well as White, Women as well as Men or Gay as well as Straight. The faces change but not the policies or the vested interests.