Elections are good...

if our side wins.

The US and Israel

are discussing ways to destabilize the Palestinian government so that newly elected Hamas officials will fail and elections will be called again, according to Israeli officials and Western diplomats.
The intention is to starve the Palestinian Authority of money and international connections to the point where, some months from now, its president, Mahmoud Abbas, is compelled to call a new election. The hope is that Palestinians will be so unhappy with life under Hamas that they will return to office a reformed and chastened Fatah movement.

We put so much credence into Iraqi and Afghan elections that result in officials in our favor. Otherwise, watch out. That means you Palestine, South America, Central America....

We seem to be the final word on what democracy should look like in each corner of the world. It is the American model of democracy - corporatism and all.