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In the US, political repression - such as the crackdown on Occupy protests - doesn't require top-down coordination.
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The Gaddafis enjoyed a political facelift from the West whilst carefully avoiding blowback - until now.
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Although the United States often bills itself as the world's greatest democracy, voter turnout has consistently fallen through the years and nearly half of the American electorate chose not to vote in the 2000 presidential election.

Benjamin Duncan in Washington
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