ok comrade

Well, to steel man this a bit, Citizen’s United codified unlimited spending on political causes by nearly anyone.

John Sirota has spent quite a bit of effort on journalism on this subject.

Ideas exist between those two extremes. You really don't become a communist by pointing out issues with unconstrained capitalism.

No, I'm insulting the edgelord response of "we're aktually an olIGarChY!!!!11!" which adds nothing.

The preferred response is to downvote and move on.

Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.

So, I was quite specific.

The USA isn’t capitalist, it’s financialist. The dollar is a financial product created via debt issuance.

The USA is semi-fascist as most people in prison aren’t given a trial, there’s a prison industrial complex, police are typically immune from prosecution, and there’s a massive surveillance apparatus that violates US law and human rights. This is wrapped in “patriotism” which is in keeping with fascist modes of propaganda, and the US corporate/state merger is a clear instance of the fascist model.

The US is an oligarchy, and not a republic. No matter who is elected the wars continue, the drug war continues, poverty increases, mass incarceration continues, and so on.

A republic is the “thing of the people”. The people of the USA have very little power over federal policy. The observed function is that a handful of wealthy oligarchs get what they want pretty much every time.