Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 10 days agoIf no government shall bare arms against its own citizens. Then what is happening in LA?message-squaremessage-square42linkfedilinkarrow-up1265arrow-down122
arrow-up1243arrow-down1message-squareIf no government shall bare arms against its own citizens. Then what is happening in LA?Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 10 days agomessage-square42linkfedilink
minus-squarePM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19arrow-down1·10 days ago citizens are the government though. Did you mean that people in government are citizens? Because I’m a citizen of my country and not in the government. if they are not, its not democratic country Correct. The United States is not a democracy. It’s barely even a “representative democracy”.
minus-squarereksas@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·9 days agopeople in government are citizens but not every citizen is in government. But every citizen should have equal right and opportunity to be in the government.
Did you mean that people in government are citizens? Because I’m a citizen of my country and not in the government.
Correct. The United States is not a democracy. It’s barely even a “representative democracy”.
people in government are citizens but not every citizen is in government. But every citizen should have equal right and opportunity to be in the government.