MOSCOW, July 1. /TASS/. US society and statehood have approached their 250th anniversary in a state of deep division and disagreement on key political issues, Alexandra Voitolovskaya, a senior researcher in the US Foreign and Domestic Policy Sector at the Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations under the Russian Academy of Sciences, said in a column she contributed to TASS.
She said that in the United States, July 4, "the 250th anniversary" of the signing of the Declaration of Independence of 1776, is celebrated on a grand scale.
"Independence Day on July 4 in the United States marks the liberation from the authoritarian monarchical power of the British Crown and is based on the fundamental principle of the declaration: ‘All people are created equal.’ But 250 years later, despite the success in expanding civil rights, Americans paradoxically do not feel so, and the state machine operates in isolation from the needs of society," the analyst said.
Reasons for the split
According to her estimates, Americans are now "dissatisfied with both the constant desire of the 47th president [of the United States Donald Trump] to expand domestic political powers to the detriment of the legislative and judicial branches of government, and US foreign policy."
