alphanerd4@lemmy.world to US Authoritarianism@lemmy.world · 9 months agoThe US is Politically to the Right of [Other] Democracieslemmy.worldimagemessage-square229linkfedilinkarrow-up11.43Karrow-down131
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minus-squaresilly goose meekah@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·9 months agoI feel like that’s less of a problem with the way a representative democracy works, but rather with corruption and thus capitalism
minus-squarevolodya_ilich@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·9 months agoYeah, I wasn’t referring to the concept of representative democracy itself, I was referring to the particular case of the US (though I’d extrapolate it to most liberal democracies in western countries)
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I feel like that’s less of a problem with the way a representative democracy works, but rather with corruption and thus capitalism
Yeah, I wasn’t referring to the concept of representative democracy itself, I was referring to the particular case of the US (though I’d extrapolate it to most liberal democracies in western countries)