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No, they are a functioning liberal democratic republic. Irrespective of their geopolitics. They managed to impeach and jail a sitting president.
by cvalka 3y ago
No, they are a functioning liberal democratic republic.
Irrespective of their geopolitics.
They managed to impeach and jail a sitting president.
- mulmen 3y agoI won’t claim to know the details of this specific case but removing a leader from power and imprisoning them isn’t unique to liberal democracies. I wouldn’t say that specific event is proof of a functioning liberal democracy without a lot of qualifiers on the circumstances and methods.
- spywaregorilla 3y agoCan you point to an instance of a non liberal democratic top leader being removed from power on account of their crimes within the established legal framework
- mulmen 3y ago“Within the legal framework” is one of those qualifiers I mentioned. Like I said, I’m not familiar with the details in the SK case.
- diogenes4 3y agoIt just seems unrelated to the concept, frankly. I'd imagine if you wanted to measure democracy you'd have to measure actual representation somehow. This is at best measuring a proxy of a proxy of representation. I find the conflation of "liberal democracy" and "rule of law" to be pretty disturbing.
- cvalka 3y ago"LIBERAL democracy" requires "rule of law".
- cvalka 3y agoShe was removed by the legislative and the judiciary branches according to the constitutional procedure. Her removal was well justified. The relevant qualifiers were present, thus the impeachment is relevant to the discussion and rebuffs the frivolous claim I was replying to.