Bobko
1 Jul 2024
News / Ups and downs of the democratic government 2023-2027 in Poland [363]
Not if you gain a democratic mandate, first. That is, it can be sufficient to gain the consent of the "socium".
If 10 people gather - one woman amongst them - and the other 9 men vote to rape the one woman... that's democracy.
It's not enough just to go through the motions of the democratic process, it's actually even more important to respect the results.
This is what sets apart real democracies like those in America, from the Potemkin democracies of places like Russia.
Having sex without consent is rape
Not if you gain a democratic mandate, first. That is, it can be sufficient to gain the consent of the "socium".
If 10 people gather - one woman amongst them - and the other 9 men vote to rape the one woman... that's democracy.
It's not enough just to go through the motions of the democratic process, it's actually even more important to respect the results.
This is what sets apart real democracies like those in America, from the Potemkin democracies of places like Russia.