Well you guys all have intresting views...some far more differing than mine. Personally I see our democracy in shambles. Less than half the population even votes for our presidents...making the winner of the election only winning by basically a fourth of the people. Our democracy isn't even widespread to all people. I mean that is the whole meaning to democracy in the first place....to have everyone vote as a cummulative whole so that everyone has an equal say in things. And the two party election system...wtf is that. Obviously it controls the extremists out of the running, but when both parties are truely only intrested in complete power and not of the people we are all to often voting for the better of two evils. There have been a lot of corrupt officials coming into the publics view lately too...but that is nothing new. It's just that it is finally being shown on tv, in magazines, etc. Lastly I don't see how we can force democracy on others. (dawns flamesuit) I mean we violating rules of engagement, tortured people, etc. I don't care who they are, we still did it. I think a lot of you need to think of what a democracy is first...not just think if we are in a crisis. When you see that we are very powerful, but only a small amount of the population is responsible for putting people in power...iono but to me that just isn't a democracy working to it's potential.