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That is not a good analysis. Both North Korea and Russia claim to be democratic countries - see the name "Democratic People's Republic of Korea".

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Ronald Reagan in 1987, while speaking to the Bicentennial of the Constitution Essay Competition winners, discussed reading the constitutions of other nations like the Soviet Union and noting their stated guarantees of freedom, emphasizing that the true difference lies in the concept of "We the People".

I always took this as warning that "We the People", can also be the cause of why those freedoms are taken. Cue the US electing convicted rapists and Brazil almost electing an US agent...

That’s an absurd take. The true difference lies in how things actually work in reality, not in a phrase written on a piece of paper somewhere.

You could replace the constitution of North Korea with that of the United States without a single thing changing in practice.

You managed to completely misunderstand both Ronald Reagan and my comment in one single take. Amazing.

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