• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    we don’t really have any more true democracies

    What’s a True Democracy and when did we originally have it?

    Is this where we blink past Jim Crow and put blinders on during the Nixon/Reagan years to pretend popular politics was a real thing prior to Clinton?

    Or are we going to claim 1976 was the only truly free and fair election in IS history?

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      17 days ago

      Let me reword that. We have no liberal democracies as we thought of them in the 90s.

      Best part of all this is there are still probably people who think that leftists are the anti-democratic ones…

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        17 days ago

        We have no liberal democracies as we thought of them in the 90s.

        No. But that’s largely because we were lied to on the definition.

        Best part of all this is there are still probably people who think that leftists are the anti-democratic ones…

        Everyone knows that “Dictatorship of the Proletariat” doesn’t mean “Working People control the government”. It means “One Guy In a Hardhat Is The King”. Now lets re-litigate every historical event between 1917 and 1945, while drawing parallels back to the modern moment and insisting tankies stole the election.