america is a fascist corporate oligarchic feudal state , with pretension of republic and democracy , neither of which is actually true of the USA . The republicanesque governmental system does not actually have real representation , and the opposite , business in DC is in essence conducted via a complicated system of legalized bribery which excludes all but the most wealthy from ever seriously contacting a representative . Having any party system at all proves it isn ' t a democracy , as a genuine democracy would vote for reps on the one hand and then over issues on the other , and parties are a doorway for the iron law of oligarchy to take hold . In the USA the body politic has been seized and held hostage by a two party duopolistic orwellian propaganda con scam caste warfare apparatus . None of that is even vaguely like democracy or republic and its not even vaguely like capitalism . Its also not even remotely socialism or communism .