Is weak and weakening.
When the flaws can be effectively pointed out by a drug addict on the radio, they are pretty bad off.
When the only billionaires getting involved politically are supporting buffoons like Michael Moore, and when JFK (Kerry, that is) is getting ridiculed by his own staff for deliberately thickening his accent in order to fool people into thinking he is the real JFK, then I am not too worried.
That academia is too reactionary to let go of even proven failures like communism, and seeks to censor free speech and thought in the name of.....free speech then it is not much of a stretch to think that like the USSR, the whole oligarchy is going to cave in before too long.
Ed