@superheroine when you in effect no longer even have the right to protest and vote against those in power, however it happens, you know you already no longer live in a democracy whatever else you wish to say about this situation. This too is very true and is very anti-democratic and in it's own way destructive, too. So if you must vote blue, at least call it what it really is, hostage voting by gunpoint. Don't even f*ckin pretend to call this a democracy.