• Paranoid Factoid@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    Splitting hairs over the difference between a democracy and a democratic-republic misses the point. China, Russia, even North Korea, are all constitutional republics. Do you want to live in a country with a dictatorship like that? I don’t.

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        2 hours ago

        Oppose it. For most of my life the United States was not a dictatorship. It’s still not quite, yet. But MAGA is certainly trying.

        Regardless, the distinction between democracy and a republic conservatives so often make to discredit democracy is one that slyly promotes dictatorship.