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> if your electeds wont change the law, vote them out and pick people who will.

This only works in a proper democracy. The US is currently an oligarchy.



What is a proper democracy? The US is both democracy and oligarchy.


I democracy is a system where rules and legislations are congruent with the will of the people.

Im the US you see an inverse correlation.

Yuval Noahs nexus does a good job of nuancing what a democracy is. I can recommend reading that book.


No, this is not democracy definition.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy


No, Wikipedia Is not a authority of definitions.


All countries are oligarchies.




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