What is happening in the United States of America these days nourished the discourses of the dictators of the world and those of many Romanian "opinionators". Unlike they think, the United States' democracy proves to be, by this very way of manifesting,, one of the strongest in the world. For eight days, the citizens of the United States of America live an event that represented, according to the polls, the central point of the public interest since the Vietnam War. One week after the vote, the Americans still don't know who their future leader will be: the republican George Bush or the democrat Al Gore. This is the number one topic for mass-media, for the retired in the parks or even for the complaisant dialogues between strangers in the metro, a rare thing, given the Americans' coldness. Such an interest for a political event is hard to imagine in USA, even by the American analysts. The uncertainty of the results has nourished, of course, the discourses of the authoritarian regimes worldwide, the official press in such countries suddenly according large spaces to the events in Washington. At Baghdad, for instance, Saddam Hussein's official newspaper has already labeled democracy: a parody. Somehow warmer, the Chinese press limited to treating with irony what happened in the United States, noticing, yet, that such a post-electoral evolution of things is inadmissible for such a great power. This kind of reactions did not miss in Romania either. Pretentious newspapers even said that what has happened there is a slap to democracy. Not to talk about the so-called political analysts of the category "Ion Cristoiu", who did not hesitate a bit to label it all "American madness", condemning the American democratic system and the Americans' pretension of being a world power. What these contestants seem not to understand is something else: the fact that democracy is not a stan