Sure if the definition of "republic" is "a flawed democracy"https://twitter.com/wehpudicabok/status/824399821494587392 …
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Replying to @arthur_affect
I've heard this a couple of times and confuses me. Does it mean US democracy is somehow more special than others?
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Replying to @Maxmordon
It is an incorrect usage of the term "republic" that only Americans use and only in this context
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Replying to @arthur_affect
I know it's incorrect, I just don't understand why US people think they are different in this context.
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Replying to @Maxmordon
It goes back to the Founding Fathers, Madison seized on the word "republic" bc of many of the Founders' dislike of "democracy"
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Replying to @arthur_affect
By arguing a "republic" wasn't a "democracy" at all they could soothe the fears of American elites afraid of "mob rule"
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Which of course leads us to our regular reminder that the American Revolution wasn't actually all that great in the first place
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It actually made a lot of ppl's lives worse, and the first actions of the new US government were to shoot those ppl
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