[isolate]

> Representative democracy isn't elective oligarchy.

It's kind of funny, because when I looked up the word oligarchy, I noticed that Wikipedia had an entry for the US:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligarchy#United_States

[zipwitch]

Both the ruling class and the public of the 21st Century United States have a great deal of emotional investment in pretending that we are some sort of hyper-equitable nation, governed wisely by the public in the interests of freedom and the general good, instead of our government being a plutocratic shit-show.

[isolate]

To be fair, the indoctrination starts at a very young age.