Comment on Are Autocracies more powerful than Democracies?
Amnesigenic@lemmy.world 15 hours agoThe US has never been a democracy, we’ve never been a particularly equitable representative republic either and our government was designed this way on purpose
naught101@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Guess it depends on how you define the term. The US certainly fits the minimalist representative definition. I don’t think equity is inherently part of the definition… Obviously I think it should be, but that’s more of a value overlaid on the organisational system, I think…
Amnesigenic@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Literally all communication depends on how you define the terms you use, that’s the whole point of having fixed definitions for words, and the US absolutely does not fit any reasonable definition of a democracy
guy@piefed.social 11 hours ago
Sure it does
Amnesigenic@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Wrong