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Please stop misusing this word so we have a better chance of actually having a democracy somwhere at some point in the future.

Please stop promoting democracy as the be-all end-all of systems for organizing human society. As the old saw goes "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for dinner. Liberty is a well armed sheep contesting the outcome".



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