>>All politicians promise too much and in most cases it is not a fraud.
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>Sure, it may or may not be a fraud. But you specifically mentioned bending the accounting, so they get elected again. I mean, how would that NOT be a fraud???

I meant that this bending is not an isolated act. It is a process continuing for long time, so many politicians added a bit here and a bit there. It creates a dilemma: either the whole thing, i.e. democracy in this case, is a fraud or this accounting troubles are spreaded in so thin and continuous way that it is something else, God's punishment, for example.