re: #193 Donkey With No Name

I’m not sure we’ve had an actual democracy since Athens. The possibility for the executive to not have won the popular vote exists in any parliamentary system; is Britain not an actual democracy?

No system that excludes adult citizens without any rational reason (e.g.: women) qualifies as an actual democracy in the modern sense either. So Athens are right out. If it’s a parliamentary system, then at least the members of parliament are elected by popular vote, so it still counts. If the US were a parliamentary system there would have been no objection. But it isn’t. It’s quite close to an actual democracy though, I’ll grant you that.