The Last Illusion of the West: The Death Rattle of Democracy

Given that I had little interest in adding yet another essay about the Charlie Kirk assassination to the flood of commentary already saturating the internet, I decided to take a different route. Instead of echoing the noise, I wanted to step back and explore something more enduring, at least to myself. A thought experiment. What if the true fault line in our politics is not between left and right, but between the sacred illusion of democracy and the uncomfortable possibility that its failures are not accidents, but inevitabilities?