Teribus, you seem like such a naive putz to me when you say stuff like that...but I understand. It's just a question of who one thinks "the good guys" are. And that depends mainly on personal background...right back to age 5 or even younger than that. Some people trust "Big Daddy" implicitly. I don't. I don't call a government that ignores the obvious sentiments of its own populace (a clear majority of them, I mean) to be "democratic" in its practices...though it may have been elected under supposedly democratic auspices. The fact is, most parties in so-called democracies lie outrageously to the public to get elected, slander their opponents in an unscrupulous manner, engage in utterly puerile squabbling with their opponents before and after being elected, and betray most of the promises they made in order to get elected. They institute policies totally against the will of their own public, because they do not serve that public....they serve special interests...such as major corporations, banks, the military, the secret police (like the CIA), and a covey of incredibly rich people.

That's not democracy. It is the facade of a velvet, recyclable dictatorship posing as a democracy by changing their chosen figureheads at somewhat regular intervals through bogus elections that only the rich can finance and only the rich can win. Everyone else loses...every time...including you, I figure.

- LH