WELL: How's this for a good test of a democracy: the ability to have only one candidate on the ballot and not have them get anywhere close to 100%:
"George W. Bush, who had no major opposition, managed to seize 85.5% of the vote in the Republican primary. That's right. 14.5% of New Hampshire Republicans voted for somebody else, including 6.5% who wrote in Kerry, Dean, Clark, or Edwards. By comparison, Bill Clinton got 95% of the vote in the 1996 New Hampshire Democratic primary."
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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