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Capitalism is fully democratic for the bourgeoisie. Liberal democracy was conceived as a means of self-rule for the emerging bourgeois class. It’s a mechanism for resolving intra-class conflict. In the US, the inclusion of proletarians, POC, and non-men are completely incidental results of class war, allowing political mechanisms to take a hit in lieu of economic mechanisms.
It was, but even this is breaking down due to the increasing wealth inequality even within bourgeoisie and the mechanisms that were created to control lower classes' participation in politics like capitalist media, electoral college, anticommunist, pro-status-quo propaganda and similar things that had got a life of their own and are eating even into mechanism of bourgeois self-rule, hindering their effectiveness. Like old realistic ghouls like Kissinger being replaced with complete idiots who have bought into their own propaganda.
With that framing it’s no wonder the US is producing mainstream fascist politicians left and right. The downwardly mobile petit bourgeoisie are some truly volatile fucks.
it's not really democratic for them either, each capitalist's influence is primarily determined by the capital they own