Electoral College

[ShadowHM]

I think you and I will need to agree to disagree on that. 

Had the Government of the US not taken a good hard look at how the governments of other nations were, or were not, developing as the Stalinist/Communist bloc attempted to spread its brand of governance/rulership, we would have lost the cold war.  It's a thing called Strategy.  The price for failure can be as high as the price paid by Carthage.
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Hmm.....could you elaborate on that one, please. I am probably misunderstanding you.

To paraphrase what I think you said: "No matter how a group of citizens choose their government, we reserve the right to meddle in that process if we don't like the outcome." Did you really mean that?

Or was it: "If we see that a group of citizens choose their government in a fashion that makes us believe that it was imposed from without somehow, we reserve the right to meddle in that process."

Or was it: "If we don't like the outcome of an election, we reserve the right to deal with the subsequent government in any way we see fit."

If it was one of the latter two, we may be able to talk some more. But if you think democratic outcomes are only for some of us and not for others, well.....we disagree a whole lot more than I realized. :o

And, on this:

Nicaragua had the very bad luck to be on the field, as a geeky chess player, during a Rugby match.  Many is the small nation frustrated by the bodily fluids that fell their way as the super power blocs wrestled.

Succinct, if unrepentant. :P