[WS:] Are you kidding? I just tried to make a quick snide comment. The original idea was to say something about countries like Russia resorting to ordinary graft whereas US elevating that graft to the status of legally sanctioned art, but this seemed too long and convoluted so I opted for something simpler.
While we are at that - ordinary ballot stuffing and under the table machinations a la Putin (allegedly) at least offer some faint hope of retribution and reversal. The legalized vote annulment cum disfranchisement through gerrymandering does not offer even that much.
I would not even call it a "republic" - kleptocracy, maybe. Or to paraphrase a Pakistani pun, every country has commercial interests, but in the Etats Unis commercial interests have a country.
Wojtek