• WhatsThePoint@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    I’m not deifying them by mentioning something they got right. I’m tired of people’s all or nothing lack of nuance. Humanity would be nowhere without the advancements of flawed people from the past. We can’t use our measuring stick on their lives without a huge degree of hypocrisy considering how much society has changed even in the last half century. For all their short comings, the founding fathers did create the frame work that most modern democracies are built on and ushered humanity away from monarchy.

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      7 months ago

      Most modern democracies are parliamentary, actually. The US system has not been widely mimicked aside from cherry-picking a few specific details.

      Also, monarchy and democracy are not mutually exclusive. I’m Canadian, for example, which is a democratic constitutional monarchy. We still have a king but we elect our government.

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        7 months ago

        Yes, but your king is basically a mascot. If they had any actual power, your system would be less democratic basically by definition.

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          7 months ago

          Sure, but that’s adding quibbles beyond the scope of what I was responding to. We’re a democracy and we still have a monarch.