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[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Misinformed.

The founding fathers of the USA never mentioned democracy in the constitution nor declaration of independence.

In their writings, they only ever used the word as a pejorative: https://founders.archives.gov/?q=democracy&s=1111211111&sa=&r=1&sr=

"we are not so absurd as to “design a Democracy,” of which the Governor is pleased to accuse us"

"You would have torn up the Foundations and demolished the whole Fabrick of the Government, and have suffered Democracy... to have arisen in its Place."

Are those the founding fathers you're talking about?

[-] [email protected] -1 points 1 day ago

From Wikipedia: "Historians have frequently interpreted Federalist No. 10 to imply that the Founding Fathers of the United States intended the government to be nonpartisan."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-partisan_democracy?wprov=sfla1

I'm not reading all of that btw.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldYfQT35_38 (just listen to the first two minutes if you're lazy)

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