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The words "democratic" and "democracy" have evolved in popular usage over two centuries of experience with governments based on the will of the people rather than aristocracy, dictators and oligarchs. It is dishonest of libertarians to ignore this to "correct" opponents. An honest approach would be to point out characteristics in addition to indirect democracy: but the reader response would be "Well, duh, everybody knows that!" instead of "Ooo, you nailed him!"<!-- DPL has problems with categories that have a single quote in them. Use these explicit workarounds. --> | The words "democratic" and "democracy" have evolved in popular usage over two centuries of experience with governments based on the will of the people rather than aristocracy, dictators and oligarchs. It is dishonest of libertarians to ignore this to "correct" opponents. An honest approach would be to point out characteristics in addition to indirect democracy: but the reader response would be "Well, duh, everybody knows that!" instead of "Ooo, you nailed him!"<!-- DPL has problems with categories that have a single quote in them. Use these explicit workarounds. --> | ||
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