Democracy in America

Do you still believe in democracy? I think it used to exist at some point but I presently feel like we are voting for puppets which are controlled by the same hand: whoever controls money. Like the saying goes: money talks, bullshit walks. If we adapt this saying to elections, it would go like this: money talks, democracy walks. Presently in the States, Obama, Clinton, Bush, McCain.... and all the other front puppets, what do you think they will be able to do with a country which is starting a serious recession (depression?) with a deficit of 41 trillion USD ??? Say "yes" to whichever banker is passing by who offers to bail them out. Ooops, I forgot, they don't have to say anything since the banker is already telling them what to say!!! Let's see all this from the point of view of Mr and Ms everybody who works for a living and tries to earn it's daily bread. Those people will vote for whoever has the most visibility and promise them a decent life. Most people want the same thing: good education, good health care, a bit of luxury and enough food to put on the table. It's quite easy to have a puppet elected: make sure you promise the little people a good life and make sure you program them to adopt the candidate through different visibility tricks. Pick some of the characteristics of the candidate and put the emphasis on those through different shows and publicities. Example, if the candidate is Black, show Blacks as leader every time you can. Haven't we seen the first Black Superbowl referee in history? Wasn't the hockey Allstar game in Atlanta with a show featuring Black people. The emphasis right now is on showing that Blacks are leaders everywhere so that people will accept Obama as their next president. What do the big whigs behind the puppets want? To milk the small people in order to have even more money. Do you still think you elect a government that will serve your best interests or does the government that you elect will have you to serve their own interests?
That's the big question! If the government doesn't serve the interests of it's electors, than who's interests does it serves? In Bush's case, it looks quite obvious that a lot of people seems to fill their pocket on the back of the American proletariat. We can only think of the bird flu panic, the war on terror used to strip people of their freedom rights in the name of security, the war overseas that will not end for quite a while but will provide contracts for a lot of "friends of the party", the subprime crisis, ... Are those people serving your interests? If they don't, can we still claim we are living under the umbrella of democracy or tyranny?