• FaceDeer@fedia.io
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    3 months ago

    Most modern democracies are parliamentary, actually. The US system has not been widely mimicked aside from cherry-picking a few specific details.

    Also, monarchy and democracy are not mutually exclusive. I’m Canadian, for example, which is a democratic constitutional monarchy. We still have a king but we elect our government.

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      3 months ago

      Yes, but your king is basically a mascot. If they had any actual power, your system would be less democratic basically by definition.

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        3 months ago

        Sure, but that’s adding quibbles beyond the scope of what I was responding to. We’re a democracy and we still have a monarch.