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Please not this misguided pedantry. A country can be a republic and a democracy. Those terms are not mutually exclusive.
by antientropic 6y ago
Please not this misguided pedantry. A country can be a republic and a democracy. Those terms are not mutually exclusive.
- dodobirdlord 6y agoMoreover, by the conventional definition of democracy (government legitimacy derives from the votes of some subset of the population) all republics are necessarily democracies.
- pensatoio 6y agoI didn't write this frivolously. There are people marching through the streets chanting, "this is what democracy looks like." They don rose-tinted glasses - projecting their mob rule fantasy of popular vote and pure democracy on our explicitly democratic republic. Words have meaning. It's not misguided pedantry.