Yes and what I'm saying is that US is not really that far away from this system. It doesn't have strong constitutional defences (Supreme Court is extremely politicised, corrupt and can just change it's interpretations of the constitution on a whim), the two party system is pretty much one capitalist party switching power between more extreme and less extreme wings every couple of years and it's all run but 70+ year old millionaires. US could very easily keep the thin layer of "democracy" and turn into dictatorship beneath it.