It may be that I (accedentially or not) compared the quality of indirect democracy's quality of outcome to gambling. Or im secretly making a larger more radical stance, somthing, somthing, revisionist social democricy has failed here, somthing, somthing.

Actual progressive alternatives to the right don't have a majority in the US, sadly.

we need to have a hard look at how we got into this position,

I will scream this unpopular message until I turn blue. Get involved in your local community politics.

We all only seem to care about electoralism every four years when we're presented with a disgusting choice that disheartens us all and makes people cynical and feel unable to affect change. Meanwhile, there might be uncontested elections running in your county RIGHT NOW that will decide how much and what kind of support will be given to your district, how your schools will be run, how your taxes will be used. Even just pushing back against local political candidates you don't agree with sends a powerful message, that we demand actual representation, not WWE theater like the fascists want to make it.

Our federal government is the peak of a pyramid. We're all clawing and scrambling to make the peak all polished and shiny according to our own values, meanwhile the giant foundation is just crumbling every day, threatening to bring the whole thing down.

And it's gonna be this way until it deteriorates into absolute dysfunction, isn't it? Because so far it's been 0 times they went "good grief, crisis averted, the right sports team won the election, and now is the time we fix the system". It's always a crisis after a crisis after a crisis.

The grammar of this comment is so atrocious that I literally can't figure out what you're trying to say, and the spelling doesn't help.

The communist party that the Ironfront opposed were what we today would call Tankies. They belonged to the same faction that betrayed the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War and allied with Hitler to invade Poland. I don't know if that addresses your concern, but I give it even odds.

That would be because they don't understand what fascism is. The unfortunate result of internet colloquialism.

Look up the definition of fascism. There are a few. Here is one:

Broadly, a tendency toward or support of a strongly authoritarian or dictatorial control of government or other organizations; -- often used pejoratively in this sense.

What do you call it when the American government supports and imposes strongly authoritarian or dictatorial control of government even if in another country. Is that not fascism?

We did this in Guatemala too at the behest of the United Fruit Company. The CIA director Allen Dulles and his Secretary of State brother, John Dulles, were on United Fruit Company’s payroll for 38 years. In 1954, the CIA overthrew the democratically elected government of Guatemala after they passed reforms to end exploitative labor practices by United Fruit Company that it saw as a threat to its profits.

Another definition of fascism involves the repressive use of government by business to ensure control of the market.

A political regime, having totalitarian aspirations, ideologically based on a relationship between business and the centralized government, business-and-government control of the market place, repression of criticism or opposition, a leader cult and exalting the state and/or religion above individual rights.