Don't try to dodge the issue with specious and evasive verbiage, Dave. ;-D You know darned well what McGrath meant.

I tend to agree with what McGrath is implying. We do not live in democratic societies. We live in corporate/military/financial oligarchies that are masquerading as democratic societies through the periodic charade of holding multi-party elections in which all the larger parties are simply compliant puppets OF the ruling Oligarchy. The results of such elections are not the maintenance of a genuinely democratic republic, but the continuance and expanasion of Oligarchic rule.

Is there any way out of it, short of a major social revolution? Probably not, given the fact that corporate money controls the political agenda.