"What is the health of a democracy when internal forces are trying to subvert it?"

Democracy is always being subverted, look at the lobbying of our own MPs. When I wrote to my MP asking how I should go about lobbying him he sent a standard reply (he is a tory yes-man though) and so I'm guessing us little people don't get to lobby. Go to Bilderberg though and you're subverting democracy with the best of them, as capitalism subverts democracy all the time but few give a shit about that meeting of the actual global elite. The Lords is packed with party donors; Cameron shoehorned in a whole slew of the buggers.

In the US something odd is going on, but whereas Trump et al have been toadying up to a country with thousands of nukes pointed towards them (Putin has his eye on the oil pipeline running through the Ukraine), it was the FBI who sat on the knowledge Trump was possibly committing treason whilst scuppering Clinton's campaign because she used a private email server, which is obviously worse than getting your yah-yahs at Russian expense watching the Golden Shower Show.