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Well, the US is not supposed to be a democracy, it's supposed to be a constitutional republic. Neither the people nor corporations are supposed to have any pow
by javert 11y ago
Well, the US is not supposed to be a democracy, it's supposed to be a constitutional republic.
Neither the people nor corporations are supposed to have any power. "Power," here, means the ability to weild force against others.
The founding ideal of the US was that nobody could do that; in other words, it was supposed to be a system of freedom, as opposed to coercion.
- cies 11y agoI know for a fact that schools teach children, both in the US and in the EU, that they live in a democracy and should be happy with that. I was not trying to hint on what it is supposed to be.
- javert 11y agoYes, they do. Which serves to illustrate that we need separation of education and state, for the same reasons that we need separation of church and state.