-10 points
And to be fair, the US isn’t a “democracy”. It’s a constitutional republic with democratically elected representatives. Semantics, I know, but accuracy counts.
16 points
Nobody means “universal direct democracy” when they say “democracy”. Not the ancient Athenians, not the Swiss, nobody.
This is a very disingenuous talking point.
-9 points
It’s not a talking point. Seems quite a few Americans don’t know what our actual form of government is called. Accuracy counts.
10 points
Words mean what the people using them agree that they mean.
You are holding a minority position here. It would seem you do not know what your form of government is called.
12 points
-12 points
Democracy, by definition, is 50% +1 vote, otherwise known as “mob rule”. That would be an even shittier system to live under.
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