•  t3rmit3   ( @t3rmit3@beehaw.org ) OP
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    5 months ago

    You inserted yourself into a conversation I was having, in which the other person (P03 Locke) was disputing Stewart’s assertion that the country would not be over, and asserting that

    This is a question of whether democracy dies in America.

    That is the context in which I felt it was necessary to define Democracy.

    You then jumped in and said

    When I say “Trump is eroding our democracy,”

    despite the fact you had not actually said that previously, and that it is a different stance from what P03 Locke said.

    P03 Locke never asserted Trump was eroding Democracy, they said he would be killing it, and they said that as a direct counter to Stewart’s assertion that the country would not be over, which indicates that in P03 Locke’s mind, the death of Democracy is equivalent to the end of America.

    In that case, it’s incredibly important to define Democracy, in order to understand exactly what changes P03 Locke believes Trump will make, so we can actually assess the likely impact of those changes, and see what precisely they think qualifies as the end of Democracy.