Reply #18: The veneer is different than the structure

[sweetheart]

It is painted as a representative democratic republic. It is a functional plutocratic timocracy run by a corporate-military-media complex that runs highly censored media where target marketing databases are used to customize that media to every demographic set. Also, as the election districts are not grids like in a modern democracy, the gerrymanders actually create uncompetetive "safe" seats in all but a very small number of districts across the nation... that no choice is actually involved in elections... the country has a million elections every 4 years that the voters are soooo spammmed with choice, that the result is no choice at all.. like getting 100,000 emails a day, and saying that email is effective... how could it be.

A brilliant insight into how databases are used to control public opinion and how information spam is used to break all concept of unity and democratic choice, read "data smog".. google for the author... i forget... likely it is not published in america, so search a foreign amazon like canada or britain. Also another book to give you eloquent background and insight in to the american conundrum is "the world we're in" by will hutton, also not available in the US... but is on www.amazon.co.uk ... the best democracy money can buy also shows how undemocratic things are.

Its easy to see how bad american government is from abroad with the aid of healthy news media... but inside the country, there is a "data smog" of irrelevant media that no truth is available, or if it is, it is one needle in a haystack of messages one gets every day... to the point where americans shut down and give up trying. The country is very much like china... with a politbureau of rich plutocrats behind the scenes purchasing the interests of wars so they can sell more weapons and american products to nations they conquor.

The country is dangerous now, and i believe it needs a new constitution to recover any of what you call "representative democracy"... likely first, it will collapse like the hapsburg empire, rotting away until it breaks up in a giant fiscal disaster. So, no, i did not vote for the bushaviks, and i have left the country because this has been clearly coming for years now. America has long lost its democratic traditions to the federal reserve system and unregulated electronic media. It is a totalitarian state ruled by an evil autocrat and by the huge military forces that are unelected but support only those who give them more money and support their adgenda to keep bases in every nation and break any force that threatens the imperial hegemony.