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Re:Mikhail Gorbachev has died by 8note on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @06:27PM (#32655953)
The founders aren't very relevant anymore. Their system was bad, and the current one is better, though it keeps some of the old flaws they introduced as compromises for the time

Based on your quote, they didn't understand that representative democracy is still democracy? The internet lessons the need for representatives, since we don't need to travel to talk to each other anymore.

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Re:Mikhail Gorbachev has died by ghostwriter on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @06:29PM (#32655975)
> The founders aren't very relevant anymore. Their system was bad, and the current one is better, though it keeps some of the old flaws they introduced as compromises for the time

The US embassy thinks otherwise: https://ar.usembassy.gov/education-culture/irc/u-s-governmen...

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Re:Mikhail Gorbachev has died by nl on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @08:44PM (#32657005)
I'll just post this once instead of on every place you are posting that same link:

> The United States is a representative democracy.

https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/lesson-pl...

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