If Trump had that much power: he would have given himself 127% of the vote.
If a secret shadow organization of oligarchs had that much power; they wouldn’t be struggling so hard against a political party that taxes them and funds healthcare and saves millions of children abroad from starvation, they wouldn’t let idiots like Theil and Musk turn the entire population against the very concept of them, and they definitely wouldn’t have let anybody know about the Epstein Files.
Okay, but then we also have to stop pretending that the USA is a democracy.
It’s just as much of a distortion of the terms
Ooooh the cope is strong with this take – do people really still believe the US is a democracy?
If Trump had that much power: he would have given himself 127% of the vote.
If a secret shadow organization of oligarchs had that much power; they wouldn’t be struggling so hard against a political party that taxes them and funds healthcare and saves millions of children abroad from starvation, they wouldn’t let idiots like Theil and Musk turn the entire population against the very concept of them, and they definitely wouldn’t have let anybody know about the Epstein Files.
Yes, that is long overdue.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/article/testing-theories-of-american-politics-elites-interest-groups-and-average-citizens/62327F513959D0A304D4893B382B992B
I mean I agree, but we still recognize the terms as we use them. Not their ideological definitions.
It’s a meaningless distinction in everyday useage