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		wkat4242 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Turkey bans Grok over Erdoğan insults It's an interesting paradox. Not just in Turkey but in other places too (even the US comes to mind which is also becoming more autocratic). What if citizens of a democratic country vote to make it less democratic? Is it still a democracy?

ben_w 3 months ago [–]

Countries can be less or more democratic, it's not a simple boolean.

But if it was a simple boolean, then no, voting to cease being a democracy means you are in fact (either way) no longer a democracy. The opposite result would be a paradox.

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