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Doc Sportello

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11. A longtime repub meme that is now being used to end democracy

Reply to skip fox (Original post)

Sat Jun 18, 2022, 10:22 AM

Jun 2022

Cons have been using the trope of it's a republic not a democracy to justify things like the electoral college and top down rule. Now they're using it to end voting and the small d democratic model we have had for the past 60 years or so.

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