[josho]

What Americans don't understand is that their democracy is a joke.

-Real democracies don't suffer from gerrymandering. -Real democracies have a free media that will challenge their government (the US news agencies are controlled by large corporations, the corporations are fine to challenge the government on a range of issues, but nothing truly substantive). -Real democracies have elections with choice, not two parties that differ only by shades of grey.