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US is not a democracy, it is a plutocracy, an oligarchy
Is any other country a democracy? I thought for it to be a democracy you needed “everyone” to vote for every law rather than electing representatives.
You're thinking of a direct democracy. The modern term is a catch all for everything from that to limited democracies that require things like land ownership to vote.
You're foolin' yourself. We're living in a dictatorship! And how'd we get that, eh? By exploiting the workers. By hanging on to outdated imperialist dogma which perpetuates the economic and social differences in our society.
Yes.
Tucker Carlson, famous proponent of democracy.