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America is an extremely bad example of how a democracy should work. Its main claim to fame is that it's old, not that it's exemplary.

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It's not a democracy at all, purposefully so.

I really don't understand why people like you insist on this completely useless semantic argument. It's almost as pointless as debating the merits of parliamentarianism versus presidentalism.

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