"Democracy in this country has failed IMO, and it's tiresome every four years being cajoled and harrangued to collaborate in a fraudulent pantomime."
Amen. But with a slight caveat. We live in a democratic republic, not a democracy, despite what the media and sociologists all want us to believe.
"Domocracy" is the comfortable myth of the Left; "democratuc republic", that of the right. Both are deluded or disingenuous in my opinion; we live in a mobocracy, where popular passions are manipulated by the powerful to validate their pre-ordained decisions.