On December the 9th 2014 The Pirate Bay went down due to raids by the Swedish law enforcement. Since then The Pirate Bay went down on the 18th February for an estimated 12 hours, The website was down though there was no trouble with its domain name and name servers, routing visitors to a CloudFlare Error 522 page.
A political machine is an unofficial system of political organization based on patronage, the spoils system, behind-the-scenes control, and longstanding political ties withi â¦ n the structure of a representative democracy.
That is why it is said that the purpose of government is to rob Peter to pay Paul and the purpose of political parties is to sort out who gets to be Paul and who has to be Peter. In a democracy, each political party tries to attract a majority of votes to its candidates so that it can be Paul. It does this by promising things that voters want, by hiding or disguising things that its powerful members want but most voters do not want. In short each political party tries to fool more voters than the other political party. The criticism this answer received warrants a statement as to the background from which it was made: It answers a question about politics today; today the U. S. is a democracy; neither the question nor the answer pertain to an 18th-century republic.