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screye
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India proposes law to ban cryptocurrencies, create...
Democracy is about allowing people's representatives to effectively pass bills for which they put them in place.
Building structures at actively make that difficult are not democratic. They are just bad.
lou1306
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Checks and balances are part of any functioning democracy. Sure they make things less efficient, but once you take them out, you end up with a tyranny of the majority.
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It is
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about protecting minorities from the majority.
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Building structures at actively make that difficult are not democratic. They are just bad.