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346 points Kye | 1 comments | 25 Aug 25 17:41 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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favflam ◴[25 Aug 25 18:00 UTC] No.45016762[source]▶
This situation feels dumb. I feel like I am watching idiots cheer on someone doing parkor and that person getting his teeth smashed on a wall. Like, what is the point?
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mullingitover ◴[25 Aug 25 18:05 UTC] No.45016847[source]▶
"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard."

- H. L. Mencken

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uncircle ◴[25 Aug 25 18:10 UTC] No.45016924[source]▶
"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter."

- Winston Churchill [disputed]

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coryrc ◴[25 Aug 25 18:15 UTC] No.45016993[source]▶
What's your alternative?

I'm serious.

(Mine is multi-member ranked voting (NOT IRV)).

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zahlman ◴[25 Aug 25 18:44 UTC] No.45017410[source]▶
"Democracy" is the form of government; you are speaking of voting systems, which are an implementation detail, and not in the same natural category. "Alternatives to democracy" are things like despotism, monarchy, communism, fascism etc.
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coryrc ◴[25 Aug 25 20:23 UTC] No.45018543[source]▶
It's a spectrum. If we're being pedantic, the US is already not a Democracy, but a Democratic Republic.
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1. zahlman ◴[26 Aug 25 22:54 UTC] No.45033335[source]▶
It has always been a constitutional republic by design; its status as a representative democracy is the result of a tradition of electoral college voters deciding to be "faithful" and listen to their constituents (overriding them is to my understanding a constitutional right).