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Sham elections, rigged elections, but elections.
By your definition, Bush is just as much a dictator as George W. Bush, as is every other leader of a western "democracy".
It's funny how "democracy" means "will of the people", presumably the people of the country holding the election. Yet somehow everyone in western Europe holds the paternalistic attitude that they know best what kind of "democratic" political system should be imposed on the Belorussian people - again, for their own good. They're just too stupid and backward to be able to elect their own leaders.
Did police prevent the exposure of his stealing of elections by pollsters and vote analysts?
Hah! The situation is even more hopeless than that. Even though the Dems hold no power, they completely support Bush (some - ahem, Hillary) I would even consider to be to the right of W.
And, yes, the DOJ is perfectly aware that the statistical probability of the vote outcome in Ohio is about like being struck by lightning in Moscow in January. They didn't do anything.
Quite the opposite, MSM outlets constantly trumpet the truth of anything W says, no matter how outrageous. I've lived in Russia and I can say that US propaganda is much more powerful and far-reaching than anything the Soviets ever achieved. And the worst part is that it's voluntary on the part of the megacorps controlling the MSM! They're not being forced to write this drivel, as the Soviet propagandists were.
They have several governors, and blocking minority in federal assemblies.
They didn't do anything.
They didn't prevent others from learning it either. OK, a few millions learning the truth didn't shake their power.
I can say that US propaganda is much more powerful and far-reaching than anything the Soviets ever achieved.
On that, fully agreed.
They're not being forced to write this drivel, as the Soviet propagandists were.
That's part of why they are so much more powerful: with 'communist' propaganda, we were always conditioned to try to read between the lines, but with US MSM propaganda, there is the myth of objectivity and independence and competition of opinions. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
Of course they prevented others from learning about the voting fraud. Ask any American on the street about it now. You will get a stare even blanker than the one you would get if you asked them the mathematical significance of PI. They'll ask if your tinfoil hat is on too tight.
The fact is that they are a token opposition, no different than that in Belorussia.
I haven't proposed what type of democratic political system Belorussia should have, but one in which fake polling organisations conduct exit polls to prove ridiculous results and then opposition supporters and media people are arrested for swearing is definitely not one. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
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