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Popular perception, at least in the UK is that when general elections take place, people are exercising their rights to vote for the better party and leader that will lead the country, and to a greater extent represent their particular interests.
In most sophisticated post-industrial states it does not work that way. 
Democracy does not exist.
A charade of democracy, along with formality exists which gives the illusion that people have a say in which leaders they choose, and which set of policies of the party they can endorse.
But in reality in such societies the leaders are rarely beholden to the people, and more often then not disappoint rather than meet expectations, subsequent to coming to power and initiating their policies.
In the USA the elites rule the country, and democracy is an utter sham.
The elites decide which President will be elected well before the November voting, and then interpreted as such through the compromised Diebold machines.
Only 78% of all adult Americans can vote, and a whopping 22% are disenfranchised. Of that 78% only 50% of that figure actually turn out and vote in FIXED pre-determined elections. 
So the USA Emperor is purportedly chosen by about 20% of ALL adults in the USA, but in reality is not elected but appointed.
Its not bad as the Soviet elections of Commissars of course, where certain candidates received 99.99%, but no less different substantively in that election outcomes are pre-determined by the elite and not the people.
The USA had more democracy in the 19th century, then it does now in the 21st century.
The USA is more of an empire now with 1000 military bases around the world, and multiple wars, and the President an emperor.
You can't have a democracy within an empire at permanent war.  
Kurt Nimmo tells it like it really is.
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Kurt Nimmo at Infowars.com
Country music icon Hank Williams Jr. told the Iowa State Fair 
Grandstand Friday night that America has “a Muslim president who hates 
farming, hates the military, hates the US and we hate him!”
Hank’s playing right into the hands of the establishment and its ever
 useful false left-right paradigm.
In fact, Obama’s likes and dislikes are irrelevant. Like all actors, 
he is playing a part and reading from a script.
He does not hate the military. He has no opinion about it. But the 
illusion that he hates it manipulates his base, Democrats and 
“progressives” who loathe and misunderstand the true role of the 
military even as their idol pretends to be the man in charge of drone 
attacks slaughtering school children and wedding party guests.
He is not a Muslim. He is a non-religious front man for a criminal 
globalist syndicate that has killed millions of Muslims.
Obama does not hate farming. He is a teleprompter reading spokesman 
for a system that has turned farming into a monopoly controlled by 
transnational corporations that produce GMO franken foods in third world
 cesspools.
His administration is stacked with the same bankster and corporate 
controlling interests that a Romney administration will be, that is if 
the global elite decide to get rid of Obama during the upcoming 
choreographed dog and pony show we are told represents a “democratic” 
election.
Hank Williams Jr. supports Romney, but says he does
 not plan to help out his campaign. It’s really too bad he is yet 
another poster child for endless mass murder and the bankster end game 
that hates America despite who may be warming a seat in the Oval Office.
So-called conservatives like to say Hollywood liberals are knee-jerk 
supporters for America-hating Democrats. Hank Williams Jr.’s comments 
reveal that so-called conservatives are saps for murderous neocons who 
also hate America.
Some things never change and there is a sucker born every minute.
