The reason it seems more overt is because George W. Bush’s naked ass could not be disguised.

As research shows, Democratic administrations are better for the economy but their policies have limited the rate at which wealth can accrue to individuals. The GOP is the club for people who believe circumspection a towel inhibits their ability to have it all right now.

Democrats cling desperately to their towel to hide their naked self interest, post-Saint-Ronnie Republicans thoroughly enjoy waving their dicks around in the open air, using Jeebus to block the view of those not admitted to the inner circle.

It is the job of the PR agencies media corporations to convince the public that not only are Republicans wearing pants but that they are the most wonderful pants ever! Look! Jeebus!

No, we no more live in a democracy today than we ever did. The illusion has just been more creatively drawn.

History will record with shame that these antics were performed to prevent the American people from having access to affordable health insurance, but not to prevent the President from launching an illegal and costly war against a country that had not attacked the US in any way shape or form.

We have not been a democracy for probably 60 years.

It’s only myth that this has ever been a democracy. It’s been run by the plutocrats since the nation’s inception.

There are two kinds of countries in the world, make that three; functioning democracies, dysfunctional democracies, and tyrannies, dictatorships. Dictatorships actually often do a good job of governing, create a stable society, in which people can pursue their lives and businesses in peace, though they are not free to dissent. Functional democracies are the best form of government, of course. And dysfunctional democracies, bannana republics, and lawless places where the democratic elections take place, but the losers don’t accept the laws and simply revolt, are the worst and are generally shitholes where people fear for their lives every day.

The one single most important precept that is necessary for a democracy to be a functional democracy, is that the losers of the elections accept that they have lost, and accept the working of the system, and commit themselves to working within the system to trying to regain legitimate power.

The republicans long ago gave up any sincere commitment to democracy. It is their sincere belief that only they can legitimately wield power, and they don’t regard democrats as legitimate americans and legitimate voters, and no longer regard the results of elections that democrats win as legitimate. This is not hyperbole, its simple fact.

They are no longer taking part in our constitutional government in good faith. This is insurrection. Plain and simple. They do not adhere to the constitution, they do not respect the laws. They are a lawless mob, intent on making this country a bannana republic. This is, sadly, something that, like the emporer’s new clothes, something it is simply taboo to say and believe as a simple plain fact.

I happen to believe this has been the case since they killed Kennedy, and killed another Kennedy, and killed MLK, and stole the first Reagan election by entering into a treasonous pact with Iran, and then stole two elections for W with outright ballot fraud and voter intimidation campaigns. This is the military industrial complex, Eisenhower was not warning of some distant possibility, he saw it in power, and it has done all these things, installing its puppets, for 50 years now.

We have not been a democracy for probably 60 years.