Quote Originally Posted by oskar View Post
They're putting in a lot of resources for the elections to be the way they are. Voter suppression is a feature to them, not a flaw.
This.

Voter suppression, gerrymandering, libel and slander tactics, these are all tacitly accepted in the US. Sure, people bitch about them, but they go on nonetheless.

The US score on the democracy scale (if there is such a thing) would rank somewhere between a banana republic and a country in W. or S. Europe.