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by markvdb 3238 days ago
"Democratic" has been overloaded with meanings and has become very ambiguous in that respect. That is the real problem.

My guess is that many here say "democratic" and mean "a system that will guarantee one respect as per John Rawls' veil of ignorance [0]". A parliamentary democracy with clear separation between legislative, executive and judiciary seems to be the lease bad solution humanity has been able to come up with for now.

Venezuela, Turkey and Poland are just recent highlights of how vulnerable parliamentary democracy is...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veil_of_ignorance