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lemmie guess... “America isn’t a democracy, it’s a republic” https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/11/yes-constitution-democracy/616949/ https://www.th
by zaptrem 5y ago
lemmie guess... “America isn’t a democracy, it’s a republic” https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/11/yes-constitution-democracy/616949/ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/11/yes-consti...
“The government wasn’t meant to fulfill the will of the people... it was meant to fulfill the will of my people!”
Minority rule has a much longer and more gruesome history of abuses, and it never ends well for the rulers.
- Grakel 5y agoWhat a straw man argument in that article. "not a democracy" simply refers to avoiding decisions based on the public opinion that sways in the wind, sometimes dramatically. See vaccine and mask mandates.