Extreme Democracy

If democracy were to fail in the United States as a form of viable government........ (4 answers)

......what could we expect to happen here in America in the short and/or long run? What other forms of government might take over or what might be a comparable substitution for democracy, if any? (Yes, it is a totally unrealistic question {probably} and hypothetical to the extreme {maybe} but I have this curiosity streak in me that just won't quit)

Forbidden Nights , is a movie about Judith Shapiro's life and Chinese students struggle for democracy at Tiamen Square (1 answer)

I'm looking for an old movie staring Melissa Gilbert name Forbidden Nights( Lifetime) . She plays Judith Shapiro, a graduate student from Berkeley that takes a position as a teacher in China right before the struggle for Democracy at Tianamen Square. Do anyone know where I can find the movie on either VHS or DVD

Do we in the USA live in a democracy? (1 answer)

Or is it really a "Republic" and a representative democracy at best. A system where we are lulled into believing that our votes really count when they really do not? Which is it? What countries on Earth have true democracies... I maintain that the USA is not one of them.