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Democracy?

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  For the last few months (at least), the ‘rest of the world’ has been subjected, ad bloody nauseam, to both US and local press coverage of the elephant and donkey circus the USA calls an ‘election’.   It has all the makings of a soap opera. Apart from a short intermezzo provided by Mother Nature (who doesn’t give a New York Subway rat’s arse who wins) in the form of Hurricane Sandy – which temporarily called Obama away from campaigning to do the job he’s paid an obscene amount to do as President – it’s been non-stop. No-doubt the Greens among us will chalk-up a victory as there is no conceivable way the aftermath of Sandy cannot impact heavily on the outcome of this ‘election’. But is it really an ‘election’ at all?   So what if it’s happening to/in the country that (if the scientists are to be believed), via pollution and overconsumption, contributes the lion’s share to global warming and climate change? It’s undeniably ironic but while it’s all well and good to sit on th