And despite popular consensus, we still have a system that can see politicians get elected/voted "out" at least every two years. Cuba only stages "elections"
Bush didn't win in 2000, Bush didn't win in 2004. What makes you believe that our elections aren't anything but staged???
Did a penniless vet who was indicted on some kind of sleazy sex charges and didn't campaign and had no money really win in SC? Do you honestly believe he did?
Our elections are every much the sham as they are in Cuba....just we have a complicit right-wing media that doesn't talk about it.