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Fewer people now say representative democracy is a very good way to govern in many countries surveyed.
(www.pewresearch.org)
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It seems this person is just going to keep repeating that it isn’t a form of government no matter what.
At this point the onus is on @pulaskiwasright@lemmy.ml to specify what criteria need be met for something to be considered “a form of government.”
I'm not holding my breath on a lib getting into specifics
It doesn’t define how leaders are chosen or how laws are enacted. It can’t be a system of government. Unless you have selected a specific implementation of government that uses it and are conflating the term with that government system. If that’s the case, then I agree that arguing over the definition is pointless. So what implementation or design do you think is better.
The current government structures of Cuba, China, Laos, and Vietnam aren’t a secret, nor is the Soviet Union’s. From a declassified CIA document (PDF):