• Feathercrown@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    We’re not an ideal democracy, but the people still vote on public positions so yeah we’re a democracy

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      5 months ago

      We’re a very reformed undemocratic settler-colonial state and those reforms have attempted to make the US more democratic over the centuries, but we haven’t come that far from the founding when elections were just a way to survey the wants and needs of white male property owners. Much like Israel, calling this is a “democracy” is an insult to all the people whose votes don’t count, or count for less, aren’t allowed to vote at all, or votes get thrown out because of some procedural bullshit that overrides their democratic will.