Yo, Sar'nt-Major!
Do you really think the 2015 election in Gaza would count as "free and fair" by Canadian standards? American standards? German standards? Russian standards? Iranian standards?
OK, maybe those last two. . .
Possibly. Be damn short one if it is.
I'll see your Texas National Guard-issued M4 and raise you an A-10 Thunderbolt.
For the google impaired. . .
M4
A-10
At what point do you think the ruling class was connected to the peasants?
I was entirely willing to work through it with you.
But yes, easier to just bellow "'Tain't raht!" than to develop a way of analyzing government action vs. individual rights.