US democracy murdered President John F. Kennedy and followed up by murdering his brother, Robert F. Kennedy.  Then President Nixon was murdered politically by democracy with the CIA/Washington Post orchestration of Watergate.

Democracy attempted to frame, indict, and prosecute President Trump for Russiagate, documents gate, insurrection gate, lying on mortgage loan applications, and twice tried to impeach him on false charges.

Democracy and accountable government lied to us about Vietnam, about the USS Liberty, about 9/11, Afghanistan, Saddam Hussein, Ghaddafi, Assad, Sudan, Somalia, Ukraine, South Ossetia, Iran, Russia, China, and Venezuela.

The accumulated failures of democracy eroded its foundations, thereby permitting the executive branch to encroach on the separation of powers and violate the US Constitution.  The US has been in many wars since the last time Congress declared war in December 1941. The president has simply taken war out of Congress' hands.  

In the 21st century presidents have gone much further by stealing power from the US Constitution and courts.  President George W. Bush declared his power to ignore habeas corpus and to hold American citizens indefinitely on suspicion alone without due process.  President Obama declared his power to murder US citizens on suspicion alone without due process, and he did.  Nothing was done about these unconstitutional acts that ignored judicial authority.

President Trump on his own initiative has committed acts of war against Russia and Iran without a declaration of war with Venezuela waiting in the wings.

The dysfunction of American democracy has reached the point at which the government has been shut down for a month.  Tomorrow 42 million Americans unable or unwilling to support themselves, thereby comprising a burden placed on the 170 million US labor force, run out of SNAP food benefits.  American democracy has become so dysfunctional that nothing is being done to avoid massive violence likely to result from leaving 42 million Americans without food.