Interesting how the Big Bad Democratic West, paragons when it comes to letting people vote for what they think they want, has a history of undermining other regimes that want people to vote for what they think they want (Chile) and installing their own men who make people do what they're told under pain of death or disappearance (General Pinochet, not exactly a commie). There are plenty more examples of the West propping up people who like to tell people to do exactly what they're told. Oh yes, western democracy can be a very moveable feast. Incidentally, the right-wingers among the leaders of the BBDW are very concerned to keep people uneducated about their own political systems. Efforts to increase the education of children in politics usually arouse howls of communist plotting. Better keep the people ignorant. It's a slight inconvenience when this approach has the unintended consequence of, for example, four million people voting UKIP, but hey ho. And, when you have the Murdoch empire and the Mail onside, it's so much easier to sell your propaganda and smears to under-educated voters, innit? On the whole, I have a feeling that this capitalist/democracy malarkey isn't exactly a done deal. Before criticising what you regard as other failed political experiments, it's as well to cast out the plank, I reckon.