There is no such animal.
With one exception, all forms of government are perfect on paper—and as soon as you involve actual people, all forms of government fail in one way or another.
The exception is absolute monarchy, which functions in fact just as it does on paper.
As the inimitable Fran Liebowitz observed, Because fascism is too exciting, and because communism is too dull, democracy is the only palatable form of government.
“who posted a tweet from the agency’s official Twitter account”
Just a dumb move.
But Trump is no “delusional communist”. He’s a batshit crazy fascist fuck.
If you’re going to get fired for illegally using a government Twitter account, at least speak truth to power.
Heavens! If they fired Ronna Romney McDaniel, whatever would she do all day? Hang out at the bar with Betsy DeVos and Kristen Nielsen pounding down Singapore Slings?
I have reached my 63rd year on the planet without ever having consumed a Singapore Sling.
One or two bad apples…
Unfortunately for Liebowitz, democracy is not on that list. Communism and fascism are categories of economic structure: “the state controls the means of production” and “the means of production are the state” in these two cases. In other words, who holds the economic power. The four recognized members of this set are fascism, capitalism, socialism, and communism.
Democracy is a political structure - i.e. who holds the political power. Other members of this set include monarchy, republic, plutocracy, and oligarchy.
Communism could be a democracy. It never has been, but there is nothing inherent in communism that is antithetical to a democracy or a republic. It could even be a monarchy, though the regent would not look like our historical examples of “royalty.”
I totally agree that governments fail in real life. Throughout history, most major civilization’s political structures have morphed into plutocracies, mainly because rich people can withhold the benefits of society - education, healthcare, reliable food sources, etc. - from the poor. Once that happens, the economic structure tends to become less of a organizing model and more of a fancy label.
The guy or gal just couldn’t take it any more. Everybody has their breaking point. Room 101.
Why use an office account? Very stupid, even though the point is spot on.