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demmiblue

(36,898 posts) Sat Jan 2, 2021, 06:13 PM Jan 2021

McFaul: The definition of democracy: a system of government in which losers accept the results...

The definition of democracy: a system of government in which losers accept the results of free and fair elections. When that norm is violated, the political system is no longer a democracy. It’s just that simple.

I know of no serious scholar -- liberal or conservative -- who disagrees with this definition of democracy. If I'm in error, please send links to their scholarship.

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McFaul: The definition of democracy: a system of government in which losers accept the results... (Original Post) demmiblue Jan 2021 OP

He'd make a great Ambassador to Russia.....nt OAITW r.2.0 Jan 2021 #1

I see what you did there. Zoonart Jan 2021 #2

Yes. Except that it's been violated, and so far we're still a democracy. Hortensis Jan 2021 #3

OAITW r.2.0

(24,647 posts)

1. He'd make a great Ambassador to Russia.....nt

Reply to demmiblue (Original post)

Sat Jan 2, 2021, 06:15 PM

Jan 2021

Zoonart

(11,881 posts)

2. I see what you did there.

Reply to OAITW r.2.0 (Reply #1)

Sat Jan 2, 2021, 06:18 PM

Jan 2021

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)

3. Yes. Except that it's been violated, and so far we're still a democracy.

Reply to demmiblue (Original post)

Sat Jan 2, 2021, 06:29 PM

Jan 2021

The losers have to win for it to be true. Pedantic, perhaps, but I mention that with the all anti-democracy subversives and their whiny victims who insist we aren't a democracy in mind.

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