Irtar, you suck at being a shock doctor, so don't try. Do you have any idea how much it would surprise me if you formulated and posted a complete response to any given topic, rather then just posting a one liner tantamount to begging for attention? A lot.

Chinese democracy is not a lie, it is simply different from what many of us take to imply a democratic process. It is, perhaps in our perspective, a less... evolved form of democracy but casting dispersions on their form of legal government simply to be a decry them as somehow less adapted then ourselves is arrogant and ignorant.

Cuban socialism, for better or worse, saw the country through some very turbulent times and played a large role in the continued solidarity of Cuba as an independent nation. Adding democratic elections to the already demonstrated form of rule could be a very good thing for Cubans. And it was modeled on an at-least partially successful template, so the question I have is; how will a "better form of socialism" manifest itself alongside a "more democratic society"?

Invasion and occupation by one or more world powers (the substance of which I believe will depend largely on other on-going global events)

Depends on who gets elected into the White House. Someone like Hillary would lay back and let another superpower invade Cuba (and in any case after withdrawing our troops from Iraq, she would probably proceed to follow in her husband's footsteps and run our military into the ground, leaving it a shadow of it's former capability), Obama might use the Monroe Doctrine to try and discourage anyone from invading, and McCain might invoke both the Monroe Doctrine and Gitmo to support a U.S. Invasion of Cuba rather than letting another power invade the country.

But as Beff says, it also depends on other events as they occur around the globe.

in case you didn't know America's democracy works on this very same principle. and i'm not talking conspiracy or semantics. you can vote all you want, but the electoral college decides the president.

I hate to agree with him, but hes right