Good thread. We use the word “democracy” to mean constitutional government. Meanwhile the autocrats use the same word to mean something quite different. Ultimately both have “voting” in common, but not much else.
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Robert Saunders
People are sometimes puzzled when I talk about "authoritarian democracy".
This (translated into the language of an angry toddler) is what it means:
It's a malign form of democracy that treats dissent as anti-democratic & uses the authority of the people ("the VOTERS") to bulldoze checks on power.
This (translated into the language of an angry toddler) is what it means:
It's a malign form of democracy that treats dissent as anti-democratic & uses the authority of the people ("the VOTERS") to bulldoze checks on power.
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