United States is an oligarchy, a plutocracy, a corporatocracy, a kakistocracy, a technocracy or what have you but the truth of the matter is that American democracy is in advanced decay.

I think it's all of those things, whenever it suits the overall mumbo jumbo of the billonaires (and trillionaires enabling them).

Unfortunately none of this is a surprise...If it's not tax cuts, then it will be too big to fail hand outs, new offshore havens protecting themselves and their cronies etc. etc. As we know the list goes on and on, while life is getting harder by the day for the average worker with the ever increasing cost of living and increasing taxes which get funnelled back into the markets and pockets of the aforementioned parasites!