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> By Lenin's definition the all those Democratic People's Republics really were democratic.

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 also followed that model. Only wealthy landowning whites could vote. The first few elections only like 4 or 5% of the population voted.

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.


> The Founders did not write that into the Constitution.

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?




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