> In that sense I still fail to see something else than "oppressive" The point was that none of the factors you're mentioning are oppressive. You can definite

> In that sense I still fail to see something else than "oppressive" The point was that none of the factors you're mentioning are oppressive. You can definitely make a good argument that they're undemocratic and that the people in power do their best to sabotage democracies. But that's not what oppressive means. You're just simply misusing the word. I am not aware of any one word to describe what they're doing, but I'm not a native speaker nor particularly fluent in politics. Could be there is a word for it which I just don't know, but often meaning can't be distilled to a single term and it's fine to use sentences to properly convey the issues at hand.