� Trump's entranced, largely authoritarian voting block, loyal to a fault even as he relentlessly guts their lives and well-being.
Sadly, prior even to Trump, the US presidential race already had devolved into a tightly controlled in-game contested by select players, featuring:
 � two political parties, each serving as lap dogs for corporate interests:
 � millionaire candidates who long ago sold their souls to the largest bidders,
 � an electoral college repeatedly thwarting the will of the people,
 � gerrymandering and corrupted voter registration policies designed to pervert and deny democracy, and
 � carefully controlled, sanitized debates.
These are but some of the features of what the great political theorist Sheldon Wolin referred to as "managed democracy.' Managed, not as democracy is intended - by the will the people - but by wealthy elites pulling strings behind the scenes.
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