Comment on Are Autocracies more powerful than Democracies?

• Amnesigenic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  A 1 to 1 vote to citizen ratio that is the actual determining factor in decision making, the electoral college alone completely destroys any argument for the US being a democracy just by existing, and we’ve had that bullshit running since day one

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  • guy@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    That is the definition of a democracy, no representative voting?

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    • Amnesigenic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      If your representatives aren’t in any way obligated to vote in accord with the wishes or best interests of the people they represent then it’s definitely not any kind of democracy

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      • guy@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Well neither are your representative congressmen.
        Following that reasoning, only direct democracy is democracy?

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