I support your proposition that democracy has ended in America.  I have proposed that America is now a Corporatocracy.  The Corporatocracy is composed of the political parties, all three branches of government, the military, the media, and the corporations (energy, military, ag, pharm, etc.).  Citizens no longer matter.  Individuals are unimportant.  Soldiers can be sacrificed.  The environment exists only to provide raw materials and to absorb the toxic wastes (everything from Depleted Uranium to chlorinated biphenyls and carbon dioxide) produced by the corporations.  In a bloodless coup that was bought with bribes and "pork" payoffs, the Corporatocracy has seized power.  They have consolidated power with Patriot Act v. 1.0 and v. 2.0.  Now they are acting to assure their continued dominance through touch-screen, papertrailless voting.  The Bush administration is the cat's paw, the lickspittle of the Corporatocracy.  Bush is not in power, Cheney is not in power, Ashcroft is not in power.  It is convenient for the Corporatocracy to have Americans believe this, because that believe distracts from the truth, and because Americans believe they might vote Bush out and the nation would change.  Only the color of the smoke would change!  

    Let's keep fighting.  My answer is:  The Life, Liberty, and Pursuit of Happiness Party.