Dickering around about who is worse, the Democrats or the Republicans, and which one of them has toadied up to Haliburton and when and how is largely a waste of time. They both serve the same corporate masters. They adopt differing outward styles primarily to delude the voting public into thinking it still has a real choice and a real democracy.

It's a clever technique, mind you. It works every time. Americans are used to it, and they think it's the only way. When people in the USA can only can see 2 viable, electable choices to vote for...Tweedledee and Tweedledum...they will vote accordingly for one or the other and the farce will go on for another term of office. Look at the pathetic choices you are offered, generally speaking, for you chief executive. The faces in power will change whenever enough damage has been done to the public's interests to alienate a majority of Americans against the false face that's presently in power...in which case they will turn to the other false face for the next 4 to 8 years.

"And may the farce be with you." ;-)

This is how you can have what is technically still a "democracy" in terms of the public mechanisms and laws put in place, but is actually an undemocratic oligarchy of powerful financial interests that are completely beyond the control of the public, and not reachable through the election process. Money bought out your democracy long ago and replaced it with an outer facade.

Very clever indeed. The same has happened in many other places too, by the way, not just in the USA.