Post the chaotic violent Trump-Biden elections, there is evidence that the US political system could rotting from inside.

While Western liberal democracies are propagating, even violently exporting their political system abroad at high human and material cost, evidence suggests that typical American -Western democracy is in a crisis at home.

The US Presidential elections made a mockery of democracy with partisan violence, widespread racism denying people of colour their right to vote.

Partisan political violence fanned domestic insecurity which shook both the Republicans and Democrats political elites.

Habitual American proselyting about democracy and sponsored regime change undermines the independent development of stable endogenous democratic rule in other sovereign nations, violating international laws to uphold the sovereign will of other nations.

Only citizens of a particular country can legitimately determine whether a country is democratic or not, as sovereign masters of their own destiny. Democracy rooted in country’s domestic historical and social environment could be reliable, foster domestic and international security and stability necessary for effective, reliable socio-economic progress as proven in the practice of China’s whole-process people’s democracy.

China’s reform and opening-up has uplifted more than 700 million of its citizens out of poverty within half a century, stirred rapid technological and industrial development which has turned China into the second largest economy in the world.

On the other hand, American democracy is proving to be dysfunctional in addressing social and racial inequality at home, deepening socio-economic gains, and creating an inclusive society.

Widespread domestic violence within the US continue to exacerbate domestic insecurity with the poorer, mostly people of colour the main victims. A report from the State Council Information Office of the People’s Republic of China comprehensively captures systemic, widespread human rights violations and deteriorating human rights situation in the US last year.

According to the report, a combination of the systemic failure to arrest the spread of COVID-19 resulted in US experiencing the highest number of infections at 34.51 million, and 480 000 Fatalities(what should be noted is that on April 11, 2022, these two figures shot up to over 82 million and 1 million respectively), with the infections and death rate higher amongst people of colour.

The US also experienced high level of violence, with 693 gun-violence-related mass shootings accounting for more than 44 000 deaths.

The report further states that underlying structural systemic racism is the main cause perpetuating violence against Asians and the many people of colour who are American citizens. In the same year, the US detained and trampled on the human rights of more than 1.7 million immigrants at its Southern border, while coercive law enforcement resulted in 557 fatalities, the highest number since 1998.

Harvard University academic Stephen Walt has called on the US to rethink its role in other countries given their human rights record at home. Walt suggests that the US should focus on fixing the problems at home, while rethinking the way they deal with the rest of the world.

This may entail rethinking the whole edifice of American democracy, as well as respecting the national sovereignty and self-determination of other countries.

Fernand de Varennes, a UN Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues of the United Nations described the US legal system of human rights protection as incomplete and outdated, aggravating inequality.

Systematic failures have compounded spiking deteriorating mental health problems among the people and staggering homelessness. Gun violence and police brutality has aggravated domestic insecurity, the threat to human life, and violations of the rights of citizens.

The failure to arrest COVID-19 endangers the lives of US and global citizens, and undermines peace, stability and democracy in the world.