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Originally posted by Oblivion437:
Furthermore, this is not a Democracy, it is a Representative Republic, and in this case a large group of individuals are muscling out a small group through the district concept, which marginalizes the individual vote.
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Democracy:
1 a : government by the people; especially :
rule of the majority b : a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly
or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections
2 : a political unit that has a democratic government
3 capitalized : the principles and policies of the Democratic party in the U.S.
4 : the common people especially when constituting the source of political authority
5 : the absence of hereditary or arbitrary class distinctions or privileges
Argue with the dictionary, not me. I'm just using the language, I didn't make it up.