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Kalikimaka
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16 Feb 2010, 7:51 pm

Tensu wrote:
Kalikimaka wrote:
No one person can change the outcome of an election


I disagree. If a person goes around convincing other people to vote for their candidate of choice, they can change the outcome. It may not be one person changing the outcome on their own, but it is one person changing the outcome.


Well there's that, but I meant in the sense that someone marks a circle on the ballot, that vote ALONE won't make a difference. I wasn't factoring in campaigning/grassroots.


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16 Feb 2010, 8:08 pm

ruveyn wrote:
In a Democracy a majority can cancel out a right. It takes more than that in a Republic. Theoretically, in a Republic the Law rules. In a Democracy the mob rules.

See the thread "You have no rights." In any case, the laws are purportedly made by the mob (or rather the majority) so I fail to see how this is a meaningful demarcation between the two systems.

It seems to me like "democracy," "republic," and "socialism" are more buzzwords than anything else.


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