Read online at https://workersliberty.org/node/36619 The USA needs to be made a proper democracy Submitted by AWL on 12 January, 2021 - 10:40 Author: Thomas Carolan The woman, in her late 20s, has been maced. Recovering slowly, she looks a bit sorry for herself, and complains indignantly. “As soon as I went into the Capitol, they maced me, right in my face.” Interviewer: “Yes, but why did you go in?” “Go in? For the revolution, of course.” Not since fascists wielding cut-throat razors tried to invade the French Chamber of Deputies in February 1934 has there been, in a functioning bourgeois democracy, anything like the occupation of the Senate and Representatives chambers in Washington on 6 January. A large crowd rampaged through the building looking for “traitors”, offices were ransacked and wrecked, the elected representatives had to hide, some fearing for their lives, a policeman was beaten to death. At least one policeman posed for a demonstrator to take a selfie alongside him. Some people carrying a noose chanted “Hang Mike Pence” (the hitherto Trumpite vice-president). One of the rioters carried a clutch of plastic handcuffs to restrain prisoners they intended to take. Some of the invaders wore sweatshirts that blazed Nazi antisemitic slogans across their chests — such as “6 M N E” (six million not enough).