I do believe you are absolutely correct and a huge percentage of America either is too naive to figure it out or simply refuses to see it. There is still a great desire out there to believe that we will be saved by the ballot box of “democratic” elections. Those who still want to believe that have never understood that this nation was never intended to be a democracy and the farther we move toward a defacto democracy the less chance there is to ever climb out of the hole we are in. The Republic is gone. The Republic was doomed when we passed amendments to allow direct election of senators and give the vote to anyone over the age of 18. Our elections now have little more meaning than an election in Cuba.