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What is the case in favor of Joe Biden staying in the race/being the Democrat candidate?
What is the case in favor of Joe Biden staying in the race/being the Democrat candidate?
that ignores the question
the Democrats would rather let the other banch of the uniparty win than support Palestine
Thank you for the answer.
I rarely use ‘seldom’
go to Reddit if you want to post your pro-American propaganda
next you’ll say you “invented democracy” 🙄
good point yeah
America is and was founded as a representative democratic republic.
If that were true, it seems to me they would have put the word ‘democracy’ in the constitution or declaration of independence.
This one talks a lot about democracies and republics, and argues against deomcracies in favour of republics, e.g. " The error which limits republican government to a narrow district has been unfolded and refuted in preceding papers. I remark here only that it seems to owe its rise and prevalence chiefly to the confounding of a republic with a democracy, applying to the former reasonings drawn from the nature of the latter. The true distinction between these forms was also adverted to on a former occasion. It is, that in a democracy, the people meet and exercise the government in person; in a republic, they assemble and administer it by their representatives and agents. A democracy, consequently, will be confined to a small spot. A republic may be extended over a large region."
America was always an anti-democratic project. I think that’s a fair reading of the historical documents, as they’re fairly explicit about it. The alternative explanation is that it was supposed to be a democracy but somehow got perverted along the way by something, by parties (“faction”), by capital, or something else. But I think it’s simple and supportable to say it just never was one in the first place, by design.
PS: Easy to find that the word ‘democracy’ was used as a pejorative among the founders of the country:
It says “The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof”
There’s nothing in it comparable to “the people of Nigeria from whom government through this Constitution derives all its powers and authority”.
it also means any form of government where the ultimate power lies in the hands of the people.
I don’t see anything here that grants ultimate power to the people.
It’s a non-immigration country like Japan. They might make exceptions for highly-skilled scientists or footballers, but you generally can’t “move to China”
There was always an anti-democratic strain in the political thought of the USA.
It was founded to restrain/limit democracy with strongly centralised executive institutions.
It was that way from the start, by design.
That’s not a unique quote either, it’s typical of the Founders’ thoughts.
Equivocating Stalin and Hitler is some crypto Nazi shit.
It is standard in Westoid discourse, e.g. the Wikipedia page on “authoritarianism” probably does it idk didn’t read it.
People who use words like “authoritarianism” equate the two.
Hungary was also the best part of the Soviet Bloc to live in for the people.
So it’s not just that modern Hungary is worse: communist Hungary is more miss-able than communist East Germany.
Nigel Swain’s two books on the subject are good:
Collective Farms Which Work? (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985)
Hungary: The Rise and Fall of Feasible Socialism (London: New Left Books, 1992)
He’s writing from the perspective of a non-red English academic who’s like… “wait… this works?? how do we explain the anomaly?”
Hungary had full shelves, booming agriculture, available consumer goods.
Or the CIA made it all up because Mao and Stalin et al did nothing wrong. 🙄
They made mistakes. But overall their countries were a gazillion times better from their influence.
The absolute garbage that does be on the internet, honestly.