You mean as compared with the US electoral process, famously described in 2012 by President Carter as shot through with "financial corruption" that threatens democracy " as we have one of the worst election processes in the world right in the United States of America, and it's almost entirely because of the excessive influx of money".
One day we will all wake up and realise we have been sleep walking through the myth of a "democracy" determined by free and fair elections through one man,one vote. It's anything but "fair" in the US or the UK and Russia seems no better or worse.
In the meantime lets trust what our eyes tell us and watch our team play the best football we have ever seen in the Premier League. If it's bread and circuses courtesy of the US Empire , the Etihad is the place to be with its peppered steak pies.
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