If that is the case Pakistan is also democratic...we get fooled when elections happen by people promising us the same ABC but end up doing the same XYZ...
We are Americanized?!
Let me know when you can vote them in/out cycle after cycle without violence, then you can call yourselves 'Americanized'.
You are trying to imply America has zero corruption level? That is a little too much in denial dont you think?
What I explained was in the abstract. In practice, of course there is corruption in the American political system and processes.
This is really cheap coming from American...No dictatorship...You guys are just happy you threw in your vote and it got counted without thinking who paid for the election campaign ...who made the nobody a somebody...whose money came in? those was my real question from the beginning...but we all should know
Who paid for the election campaign ? How about donations from the people ?
Contributions Brochure
Contribution Limits Chart 2013-14
Big Money Breakdown: Why 2012 Is the Most Expensive Election Ever
The Obama campaign raised more than $632 million during the 2012 election season, about 62 percent more than the Romney campaign's $389 million. When factoring fundraising by the Democratic and Republican National Committees, the Obama re-election team still topped Romney's by $166 million.
Romney received an equalizing boost from $350 million in outside spending, while Obama benefited from about $100 million from outside groups. As Election Day arrives, Romney and Obama remain nearly tied in the
polls.
The pro-Romney effort relied heavily on big donations from wealthy donors who supported his campaign and pro-GOP outside spending groups. The Romney campaign raised more than four times more money from large individual donors than from small donors.
The Obama campaign relied heavily on a groundswell of small donations from grassroots support, with 34 percent of the Obama war chest made up of donations of $200 or less. The total amount of money the Obama campaign raised from donors who gave more than $200, however, amounted to about twice as much as was raised from small donors who gave less than $200.
You did not perform even basic logic, let alone basic research. Logical thinking would mean money cannot be conjured out of nothing. Had to come from somewhere, right ?
The dishonesty in your, and others', criticism is that somehow a billionaire, millionaire, and corporations can give as much as each like, never mind that the federal laws on limits are plain for anyone to search and think about it.
So if the 2012 campaign combined cost of $1 billion and there are laws limiting individual and PAC contributions to maximum of $5000,
WHERE THE HELL DO YOU THINK THE REST OF THAT BILLION CAME FROM ? RUSSIANS ? CHINESE ? CUBANS ?
If 1000 people create a 'political action committee' (PAC) for Hillary Clinton, then another 1000 create another PAC, and so on, each PAC is very much a lobbying group for each 1000 citizens who shares the same dream of electing Hillary Clinton or even Marvin the Martian for President. If 3000 people can do it for Hillary Clinton, another 3000 can do it for Marvin, another 3000 for Mitt Romney, another 3000 for Clint Eastwood, and so on, if they want to.
I never attacked America or anything...I questioned it...
Use the American invention called 'The Internet' and do a better job of questioning US.
The fucking laws are there for anyone to see and the goddamn newspapers dissect the contributions in every election.
That was not my point ...my point was democracy is literally electing the rich..or elected due to the influence of the rich...
Nothing wrong with being rich, is there ?
oligarchs do exist in America otherwise why are election campaign and contributors soo important?
Because we use money instead of bullets to elect people.
As for your taunt on dictatorship...well a population like ours with less educated people need someone to boss them...not until we get a proper education system in place, I doubt the population is capable of making a proper decision...call it dictatorship with your taunts as that is what you are taught (that too from one who has never been in such circumstances)...what we observe with our population is how we learn...the educated class would not want a dictatorship but the uneducated class needs it...
Then get your electoral house in order before you start 'questioning' US. But if you do, then considering the illiteracy rate in your house, we will taunt you for questioning US.
Yawn.
Once again, when you can't debate the specifics, you resort to cheap personal attacks.
When you cannot even understand the basic relationship of the press and the government in a democracy...