jeffw@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 5 months agoRight-Wingers Plan to Make it Difficult for Democrats to Replace Bidenwww.rollingstone.comexternal-linkmessage-square58fedilinkarrow-up1128arrow-down120cross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-squareknightly the Sneptaur@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down3·5 months agoIf by “some level of Democracy” you mean that the only people whose opinions have a statistically significant impact on policy are the wealthy and a select few corporate lobbying orgs, then I don’t disagree. Science proved that America isn’t a democracy over a decade ago: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/princeton-scholar-demise-of-democracy-america-tpm-interview
minus-squareTrickDacy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·5 months agoWe have never been a pure democracy so this is just as stupid and pointless as I said. You’re arguing with an imaginary point of view.
minus-squareknightly the Sneptaur@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down2·edit-25 months ago“We’ve never been a pure democracy” sure sounds like “No True Scottsman” to me. More like oligopoly, than any kind of democracy, really. But hey, don’t listen to me. I didn’t moderate my rhetoric to your preferred tone while casting aspersions at the Holy Democracy of America. XD
minus-squareTrickDacy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down2·5 months ago sure sounds like “No True Scottsman” You should learn what that means before you use it moderate my rhetoric to your preferred tone That’s what we call just telling the truth now? Cool
If by “some level of Democracy” you mean that the only people whose opinions have a statistically significant impact on policy are the wealthy and a select few corporate lobbying orgs, then I don’t disagree.
Science proved that America isn’t a democracy over a decade ago: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/princeton-scholar-demise-of-democracy-america-tpm-interview
We have never been a pure democracy so this is just as stupid and pointless as I said. You’re arguing with an imaginary point of view.
“We’ve never been a pure democracy” sure sounds like “No True Scottsman” to me. More like oligopoly, than any kind of democracy, really.
But hey, don’t listen to me. I didn’t moderate my rhetoric to your preferred tone while casting aspersions at the Holy Democracy of America. XD
You should learn what that means before you use it
That’s what we call just telling the truth now? Cool