At 18:06 21-10-2002 -0500, Dan Minette wrote:
> >Out of curiosity, why do you keep on twisting meanings, even when you > >don't have to? > > I do not see this as "twisting meanings". Apparently I use a different > definition of "democracy" than you do. But then, the definition "the > majority decides" is the everyday definition that gets taught in > schools here (at least, in my days it was; I cannot tell if it has been > changed since then). I suppose that US schools teach "representative of > the people" as the everyday definition. > > So, if you think my definition is wrong, blame the Dutch educational > system. :-)The real question, of course, is the majority of whom?
The majority of the people who participate in the voting, of course.
The USSR was certainly not considered a democracy. However, technically speaking the Politburo itself could be considered democratic if it made decisions by majority vote.Was the USSR a democracy by the Dutch meaning of the word, because the majority of the Politburo dediced?
Jeroen "Voting is so much easier with Iraqi democracy" van Baardwijk
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