Russia has elections, but the elections don't matter. The elections are ritualized consent for a despotic state. American elections are already ritualized. You

Russia has elections, but the elections don't matter. The elections are ritualized consent for a despotic state. American elections are already ritualized. You can't really vote for an anti-oligarch/regulate corporations candidate unless you're in a couple districts. There are very few "rule of law" candidates. There's no voting based way to get congress persons to stop trading stock. I think there will be the performance of voting in 3.75 years, but even less substance to it than we already have.