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Originally Posted by bitontheslide
The USA is not a democracy, at least with China, Russia etc, there is no pretence at it. Everyone knows what they are getting. For the record, when Putin was elected, he was universally popular with the people, they were in full support of him, it doesn't get much more democratic in those terms
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i'm sorry, did you just say there is no pretense that Russia and China are democracies? because i'm pretty sure both claim to represent their people and that they adhere to democratic principles. so how do you figure that there are no pretenses?