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minus-squaresilly goose meekahlink1•6 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-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•6 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)