• anm767@lemmy.nz
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    21 hours ago

    It was never a democracy because it is a constitutional republic.

    • athatet@lemmy.zip
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      7 hours ago

      Please learn what words actually mean instead of just spouting off shit you’ve seen other people say.

    • Paranoid Factoid@lemmy.world
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      19 hours ago

      Splitting hairs over the difference between a democracy and a democratic-republic misses the point. China, Russia, even North Korea, are all constitutional republics. Do you want to live in a country with a dictatorship like that? I don’t.

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          11 hours ago

          Oppose it. For most of my life the United States was not a dictatorship. It’s still not quite, yet. But MAGA is certainly trying.

          Regardless, the distinction between democracy and a republic conservatives so often make to discredit democracy is one that slyly promotes dictatorship.

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      20 hours ago

      That implies our elected officials represent the will of their electorate. They do not. They represent the will of their corporate owners, “campaign donors”. It is a plutocracy.