pseudodemocracy

The Rise and Fall of a pseudodemocracy, we call the U.S.A.

Tea Party Express rallies against 'big government' 2009

In fact, in the extreme development of this thesis, Herman and Chomsky claim that voters have to be fooled for American pseudodemocracy to work, since the electoral machinery of the USA is an extension of its media apparatus.

Néojaponisme » Blog Archive » The Jimusho System: Part Two 2010

Now we are confronted with the challenge of how to deal with the authoritarian hardline pseudodemocracy.

Think Progress » Williams Confronts Kristol: ‘You Just Want War, War, War, And You Want Us In More War’ 2006

Latin Americans, as well as its rotten and hyprocritical pseudodemocracy, or feudal oligarchy, the satrapy of the Somoza, Duvalier or Stroessner style, or the fascist recipe applied to Chile, Uruguay and other unfortunate peoples in this hemisphere.

SESSION OF PEOPLE'S GOVERNMENT NATL ASSEMBLY 1979

The historical trends suggest that the Achilles heel for the Taliban would be the loss of their Pakistani sanctuary, while the principal American vulnerability lies in Hamid Karzai's anocracy, or weak, pseudodemocracy.

APA 2010

But it's a variation of ... metapedianism1, except that, unlike the pseudodemocracy of Wikipedia, in this instance we are just making our unasked-for opinion as to what is "proper" or what subsites are "for", as unwelcome as backseat drivers.

MetaTalk 2008