Leveller ~~ your final question is tendentious and sophistical and malapropos. It is perfectly possible to have a 'best of both worlds' situation. The present one here is in no way inimical to a democratic process ~~ which they have also in Iran, you know; which for some reason doesn't seem to save people from being stoned to death or given 99 lashes for 'crimes' which are not even offences in most other 'democratic' states, does it?

~Michael~