By Lenin's definition the all those Democratic People's Republics really were democratic.
What that means for OpenAI, I don't know :/
The electoral college, for example, is set up this way. The idea is that electors—who were not democratically elected—could block a populist candidate.
As we saw in 2016, this check failed.
The American Constitution is an indirect democracy. Direct at the local level, indirect at the Federal level (though eventually by statute and amendment it became direct for Congress).
> As we saw in 2016, this check failed.
Nonsense. That "failure mode" was designed for. It has happened a few times. Working as expected.
If you mean “what electors are on the ballot” isn’t democratically decided, but rather, is determined by the parties, then yeah I guess that’s true?
Not by lenin's definition. Just the definition of democracy and where it came from. We get democracy comes from the greeks - where only the wealthy slave owning elites could vote.
The founders also followed that model. Only wealthy landowning whites could vote. The first few elections only like 4 or 5% of the population voted.
Isn't it crazy how propaganda has shifted your understanding of democracy? Democracy was never "of the people, by the people, for the people ", it was always about the elite few.
The Founders did not write that into the Constitution.
> Isn't it crazy how propaganda has shifted your understanding of democracy? Democracy was never "of the people, by the people, for the people ", it was always about the elite few.
Propaganda is what you're writing.
Because the founders wanted voting to be controlled at the state level, not the federal level...
> Propaganda is what you're writing.
Historical facts is propaganda?
So what is propaganda? That only landowning whites could vote? Democracy came from the ancient greeks? That ancient greeks owned slaves and only allowed wealthy slave owners to vote?