Comment A slighly different definition (Score 1) 392
I'd like to be enlightened on the following aspect of how democratic the USA are.
Let's assume that the political system works as expected (i.e. ignore that everything is decided by big $$).
Considering that USA uses military force, spying and monopoly of global currency to enforce its laws and promote its policies worldwide, shouldn't the whole world population participate to the USA elections for it to claim being a democracy ?
In the current situation (and again, assuming an utopia inside USA borders), it's 330 million people trying (and effectively succeeding for the most part) to oppress 8.1 billion.
By that metric, I'd say that North Korea is much more "démocratic" simply because they oppress much less people.