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What makes you think this is a democracy?
by MicroBerto 11y ago
What makes you think this is a democracy?
- laotzu 11y agoState run public education and mass media
- ionised 11y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_totalitarianism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_totalitarianism
- mindslight 11y agoWhat makes you think this isn't?
- MicroBerto 11y agoThe fact that it's not
- mindslight 11y agoSo, no true Scotsman?
- MicroBerto 11y agoNo, this is AMERICA
- mindslight 11y agoOh, I think I misinferred where you were coming from. From context, I had thought you were advocating that we needed to democracy harder. On reflection it seems more likely you're espousing the viewpoint that USG hasn't been specified as a democracy, so people advocating to democracy harder are asking for nonsense. In some sense that would put us closer to agreement, but from my perspective that viewpoint clings to a prescriptive model that is clearly irrelevant at this time. Democracy has become our national religion, and the mechanics of how the celebrities obtain office isn't so important as the idea that no action is off limits to the court of public opinion, adjudicated by the media.