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Re:We already live in social credit, we just don't call it that by chasd00 on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @10:20AM (#45116139)
> Only when McCarthy and those policies got unpopular, they let him do it as long as he was popular.

isn't this democracy at work? will of the people and all that?

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Re:We already live in social credit, we just don't call it that by Jensson on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @10:34AM (#45116326)
Democracy? Yes. Liberal democracy? No.

A core part to liberal democracy is that the government must follow the law. If the government doesn't follow the law due to checks and balances failing then its not a liberal democracy.

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