Hossein Askari
4 min readFeb 27, 2022

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Democracy or Autocracy — It’s the Time for Americans to Decide

Americans can’t have it both ways. Which do they want, democracy or autocracy?

Today, America is divided by many chasms — right and left, guns and no guns, rich and poor, gender issues, women’s rights, race and much more. These divides cannot be neatly lumped into Republican or Democratic camps. Party affiliations have become blurred and meaningless. The divides are so many that no party provides a real home. Frustration and anger abound and America is being torn apart at the seams, slowly but surely, and becoming less dominant on the global stage — something that…

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Hossein Askari

MIT engineer-economist. Prof: Tufts, UT-Austin, GW. IMF Board. Gov Mediator: Iran, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait. Focus on Econ-Fin, Oil, Sanctions, Mid-East, Islam