Our Democracy wasn’t at stake in January 6, because we have never had a real democracy.

Roberto Mendoza
7 min readFeb 12, 2021
January 6, storming of the U.S. Capitol building.

What we call ‘Democracy’, here in the U.S. State, is really an Oligarchy, where power rests with a small number of people. Average Americans only get to exercise their ‘democratic right’ to vote, only every two to four years and then they go back to struggling to make a living in this Capitalist dictatorship. Every boss is a dictator, and…

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Roberto Mendoza

Native American/Chicano artist, screenwriter, filmmaker, writer, revolutionary. Living in Los Angeles. Co- founded Cooperation Tulsa. https://www.facebook.