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It's foolish to believe that democracy could not commit genocide.
Between gerrymandering, the inherently unbalanced nature of the Senate, the House being too small to proportionally represent the population, and multiple presidents in my lifetime losing the popular vote? It's foolish to believe America is a democracy.
That's why it doesn't matter that the majority of Americans are opposed to the genocide and why our politicians ignore us.
We're not an ideal democracy, but the people still vote on public positions so yeah we're a democracy
We're a very reformed undemocratic settler-colonial state and those reforms have attempted to make the US more democratic over the centuries, but we haven't come that far from the founding when elections were just a way to survey the wants and needs of white male property owners. Much like Israel, calling this is a "democracy" is an insult to all the people whose votes don't count, or count for less, aren't allowed to vote at all, or votes get thrown out because of some procedural bullshit that overrides their democratic will.
You're not wrong in spirit but you're still wrong on the terminology. We are a democracy, it could just use more improvements.
I wonder if you consider Russia a democracy.
tbh I don't think about Russia at all
Well, think about it.
Is it a democracy?
Ok fair enough actually