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Just because the people we vote in don’t do the things we want doesn’t mean democracy doesn’t exist at all.
So you think democracy means that the people in office take their marching orders from oligarchs, the wealthy, MNOs and George Soros, not the people?
Yes that's what democracy is. Corruption. Because the sole requirement to wield power is to be able to lie to morons.
Is that what currently happens? Yes. Is that what should happen? No. Democracy is still a thing even if the people who get voted in happen to be corrupt. Do I believe there are ways to actually prevent elected officials from being bought by corporations? Yes. I’m just not sure if all of those methods are constitutional or not, or if they could backfire or not, like banning corporate lobbying while finding a way to allow individual lobbying.
Democracy, which means rule by the people, is still a thing even if the people have no actual power?
That is absurd and sounds like cope.
The system is broken, that doesn’t mean the system can’t be fixed.
“I am not a 'democrat' only because 'humility' and equality are spiritual principles corrupted by the attempt to mechanize and formalize them, with the result that we get not universal smallness and humility, but universal greatness and pride, till some Orc gets hold of a ring of power--and then we get and are getting slavery.”