• the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Every time I see a new headline about is approval rating its the same headline yet some how he is still in office. It seems almost as if the U.S isn’t actually a democracy after all.

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      Because the US system is that there is an election every four years and only every four years even if the leader does a horrendous job. In Canada, if enough people are unhappy with the government, we have processes for calling an early election

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        “True” is doing a lot of heavy lifting there. A democratic republic is a form of democracy.