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Isn’t the US a democratic republic in practice?
by pixelatedindex 2y ago
Isn’t the US a democratic republic in practice?
- erulabs 2y agoYes, but if you think some vast swath of voters should be able to participate in the election of representatives, you're ditching the democratic part.
- dragonwriter 2y agoThe US is a federal representative loosely-democratic (but some-animals-are-more-equal-than-others) republic in theory, and a rough plutocracy in practice. Greater structural barriers to the franchise makes it less of any kind of democratic anything even in theory.
- PaulDavisThe1st 2y agoThere's nothing interesting about the "republic" part. All democracies have something things that make impossible-to-hard for majoritarian legislating to affect. The US is no different in that respect, other than the precise things that are deemed out of reach of the majority, and how hard it is to change that.