Lazamataz wrote this the other day.
Imagine if America was a dictatorship.
You could get things done by bypassing various Houses of Congress at your will.
You could help your rich friends by bailing them out when they gamble and lose.
You could impose substandard health care on the masses, while you and your cronies continued to receive the best.
The media would claim to free but would actually be controlled by, and be the mouthpiece for only one political party.
You could wire-tap phones without warrants.
You could monitor internet usage at-will.
You could declare your own citizens ‘foreign combatants’, and torture foreign prisoners.
You could have rigged elections and not one media entity would object.
You could lie about why you continued a war.
You could ignore and lie about, then sweep under the rug any embarrassing international incidents.
You could use the media to scare the people into supporting policies that are against their interests.
If your ‘Constitution’ forbade certain actions, you could use the UN to implement them anyways.
IMAGINE? Don't have to, we're in it now.