> Heh.. Russia has "elections" too.

The 'heh' indicates a misplaced smugness.Our elections actually result in a change in leadership. There is a lot of yammering, but no evidence the US is about to become an actual dictatorship.

> So easy to point and jeer and say "they're bad, but over here the circumstances are different!"...

Because they are drastically different. You're just trying to downplay that because it breaks your entire argument.