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Karl Popper made the point of democracy being the only form of government that provides getting rid of those in power without bloodshed and violence.

If voting will not remove them, what will?

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Voting will remove them, that’s the point.

If voting could remove them it wouldn't be allowed.

This is a pithy description of a post-democratic political system. Its pithiness does not make it an accurate description of any given political system.

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