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  • saltesc@lemmy.worldEnglish
    42·
    2 days ago

    It can be if the citizens vote it to be so.

    But also remember, modern democracy isn’t true democracy. So it’s more like if the “representatives” of the people want it to be so, with anywhere from lots to no consideration of the people, which is fundamentally not democracy as the Ancient Greeks intended it to be.

    • punkisundead [they/them]@slrpnk.netEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      which is fundamentally not democracy as the Ancient Greeks intended it to be.

      This does not make modern representative democracies better, but the ancient greeks only allowed men and non enslaved people to particpate in their democracy.

    • Eldritch@lemmy.worldEnglish
      32·
      2 days ago

      It’s not a direct democracy. But no one’s ever claimed that it was. It is however absolutely a true democracy. An example of representative democracy. And not a very good one at that. But it is true democracy.