Supply and demand. As long as there is demand for Russian rubles, and there are as long as Asia trades with them, then inflation will be kept in check. Inflation is caused when supply outpaces demand.
Pretty sure it's the material interests of the ruling class. The fossil fuel companies say we can't do solar power, so we don't. That's not democratic - the opposite, actually!
Cuba didn't cause those clandestine projects, though? The CIA caused them.
You're seemingly blaming Cuba for CIA plotting. It's not Cuba's fault that they foiled the CIA's plots, it's the CIA's fault for plotting to assassinate Fidel Castro! Stopping the CIA doesn't make Cuba a sponsor of terror, it makes the CIA a terrorist organization.
We wouldn't really be using our electoral system if everyone was a Supreme Court Justice, it'd be a much more direct voting system without an electoral college and if no result got >50% the Court would be hung and there would be no decision.
I don't buy these anti-democracy talking points, the problem in the US has always been that we have too little democracy.
The People are often ahead of the Supreme Court historically - look at same sex marriage. Same sex marriage approval crossed the 50% threshold in 2011 but the Court didn't reach that conclusion until 2015. Go back farther and look at segregation - the majority of the US approved of desegregating schools and busses at the time of the ruling. If this was a democracy we'd have had those rights possibly earlier because the Court is either in-line with or behind public opinion.
And I know for a fact that a democratic Supreme Court wouldn't have ruled in Citizens United that bribery is legal.
The rot runs the party, you aren't going to clear them out without overthrowing them somehow.
I think the DSA should split the party.