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We dont live in a Democracy anymore. This is factually Nazi Shit.
Don't start. You never had democracy in the first place. Yes, now it is even worse but it has never been good.
Cynicism isn't helpful. The U.S. was a democracy and now that's in jeopardy. To pretend that an imperfect democracy is equivalent to the electoral autocracy we seem to be headed for is disingenuous and betrays the many substantiative freedoms we enjoyed under the former.
If a representative democracy is not a democracy. What is it?
Technically, it’s a republic. In a full democracy, the citizens would vote on everything directly. You know all those bills that Congress votes on? We’d handle them ourselves.
I could be wrong, but I don’t think a country has ever operated that way. It’s a logistical nightmare.
Edit: if something here is factually incorrect, an actual explanation would be helpful. Thanks.
As an anarchist I would love direct democracy immeasurably more than what we currently have. You aren't wrong. It is a republic, a Democratic Republic; that uses representative democracy. But that doesn't argue against it being a democracy. Just not a direct democracy. Which by the fact that we have an actual name for it. Means that there are other types of democracies that aren't direct democracies. Such as Democratic Republics.
Like I've said elsewhere I'm not defending our current system it fucking sucks. But the problem with it is more that there aren't safeguards to keep the wealthy from capturing it. And that the wealthy have captured it. It can function marginally okay without them in control. But I don't know that that's ever really happened in our country's history. I'm absolutely for replacing it with something more democratic.
If what the majority wants has no influence on policy decisons, and politics are only influenced by what the economic elite want, what is that?
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/article/testing-theories-of-american-politics-elites-interest-groups-and-average-citizens/62327F513959D0A304D4893B382B992B
A flawed democracy. Literally still a democracy. I'm not defending it. I think it's shit. But I also think people claiming that it isn't a democracy is disingenuous, hyperbolic, and a bit shit too.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-democracy-report-1.7486317
Some shit that doesn't represent people in any way. Just a monarchy where a monarch is substituted with a few hundred mini-kings. Especially in the USA where people never even had a right to elect those mini-kings.
That's literally because of capture by the wealthy and powerful. Not the system itself. Yes the system doesn't have proper safeguards against it. But you're not criticizing the system you're criticizing people who control it currently.
A sham.
I don't think much of it. But it is still a democracy. One of the most flawed there is. But still technically a democracy.
It is a lovely dream to be sure. Someday…