Long term computer programmer, making my own library. American based. Far left politically. Politics centered around promoting use of paper ballots. Follows news about environmental collapse, political corruption in my country, human rights, science and tech. Earlier

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  • Historically, democracy only allowed free males who were land owners to vote. A minority.

    In the last few generations the wealthy have come up with clever ideas to hold onto power while expanding the vote to the majority.

    So, I think Democracy is defined by periodically changing some of the government by the voting of some people. And the votes must be counted in front of witnesses.

    This is my definition of democracy only; and not me arguing for it, personally I don’t think it works well enough