Russia also has elections. And in the progressive democratic Great Britain, Spain and Sweden, the monarchy. The problem is not the absence of elections, but the absence of a strong systemic opposition with a coherent program. Or take, for example, the United States, a stronghold of world democracy with bright, non-polite faces. In appearance, there is a real systemic opposition and a real turnover of power, with periodic rotation between Democrats and Republicans. But if you look at the program of the modern Democrats, it looks suspiciously much like the program of the Republicans of half a century ago, and the program of the modern Republicans, it looks very much like the program of the Democrats of half a century ago. In just a few decades, Democrats and Republicans programmatically changed places with a change of all the main vectors by 180 degrees. Modern public politics in democratic countries is show business. Externally and internally, the political course of the United States weakly correlates with who is now in the oval office of the White House and which political party now has a majority in Congress. Democracy is noodles on the ears for suckers.