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> America is not a democracy — it is a constitutional republic with democratic elements. People like to say this all the time like it's clever, but being a rep

• dragonwriter 7y ago
  > being a republic does not preclude being democratic. No, but the particular form of the US republic does so in practice. > The United States is a democracy. The United States may have been built around an idea of representative democracy, but in function it is more of a plutocratic republic with quasi-democratic rituals.
  • jakelazaroff 7y ago
    Oof, “democratic rituals” is an uncomfortably accurate description of voting in the U.S.
  • charles_f 7y ago
    > quasi-democratic rituals "We're doing stand-ups and we use story points, we're agile"
• frankzen 7y ago
  Electoral college, bruh. Not a true democracy.