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I think you are at least a bit misconstruing direct democracy vs representative democracy and instead calling it democracy vs authoritarianism. The people hand
by dmoy 6y ago
I think you are at least a bit misconstruing direct democracy vs representative democracy and instead calling it democracy vs authoritarianism.
The people handing down the aforementioned decisions were elected specifically to do things like this. That doesn't outright make it authoritarianism. (Yes, most elected US politicians on both sides of the aisle skew fairly authoritarian, but that doesn't mean the process itself is authoritarian)
- samatman 6y agoThis is at most a conflation, not a misconstrual. I prefer to think of these words as points in a spectrum, rather than definitional prisons with tight boundaries. Allowing school districts to do what they are constituted to do, is more democratic than delegating it to the State governments, which is more authoritarian. Authoritarian is also not an antonym of democratic. They correlate, but not as strongly as any advocate for democracy would prefer.