QUOTE (Laura @ Sep 10 2008, 06:32 AM)

See, all of our screaming and demanding that she do interviews so people can see what she is really like, ain't gonna do shit....you know why? The election has already been decided by the media and the piglets who follow it, and the next President will be McShame and Piglet Palin....
GOD HELP US ALL!

Well, if that is the case, then it is pretty clear that this is not democracy, is it? How does the "informed electorate" vote, if entrenched power keeps it from being informed?
And if this is not a democracy, then what right to we have to export "democracy"? If we are exporting our brand of government, that becomes nothing more than exporting a mechanism for control of populations.
And if we cannot export democracy, then what should we think of those spending our blood and treasure allegedly doing so?