Guest Post
By Barrie Saunders
The departure of Donald Trump from the White House was a victory for the US democratic system, which only just succeeded. If then Vice President Mike Pence had wavered under enormous pressure from President Trump and his cult-like supporters, Joe Biden might not be in the White House and there would have been serious civil disorder.
The Republicans haven’t given up; they are now trying to make voting more difficult in several states. Democracy is a model under threat from many quarters, and it is losing around the world.
It is easy to forget how recently democracy has become mainstream. In Britain women over the age of 21 only got the vote in 1928 and in the US, universal suffrage only became accessible to all Afro-Americans in the last 55 years because, prior to the 1960s voting reforms, there was serious voter suppression in parts…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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