Rest of the World! Please understand that the Government of The United States of America, in theory, was designed to be led by representatives elected by its citizens. They all (from the President on down) are Public Servants - there to SERVE the public, as sworn by oath. This is not always the case.
The US government was never not captured by the bourgeoisie, because the US was born of a bourgeois revolution[1]. The wealthy, white, male, land-owning, largely slave-owning Founding Fathers constructed a bourgeois state with “checks and balances” against the “tyranny of the majority”. It was never meant to represent the majority—the working class—and it never has, despite eventually allowing women and non-whites (at least those not disenfranchised by the carceral system) to vote. BBC: [Princeton & Northwestern] Study: US is an oligarchy, not a democracy
Rest of the World! Please understand that the Government of The United States of America, in theory, was designed to be led by representatives elected by its citizens. They all (from the President on down) are Public Servants - there to SERVE the public, as sworn by oath. This is not always the case.
Our education system and Schoolhouse Rock! (specifically America Rock) pulled a fast one on us.
Previously:
The US was designed to be a democracy for the ruling capital ruling class from day one. Entire books have been written on the subject. https://archive.org/details/democracyforfew0000pare