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Originally Posted by Itse
They do.
You obviously can't vote Putin out of power, but there's a lot Putin doesn't really care about (local stuff for example) or things that aren't threatening to him, and you can have elections and political debate over that stuff.
China also has elections on the lowest levels of power.
There will absolutely still be elections in the US even if it turns into a full blown dictatorship, there's such a long tradition of elections on so many levels of governance, and it will take much longer than 3 years to squeeze out opposition voices.
That said, GOP will do absolutely everything in it's power to make the next presidential election as unfair as possible, because they obviously can't let a Democrat take that position anymore.
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There's also so much ad spend tied to elections, the U.S. economy would probably dip significantly if they didn't have one.