• masquenox@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    See, this is why you don’t get your politics from a dictionary.

    a: government by the people especially : rule of the majority

    If a was true, where is your universal healthcare?

    I could ask a book’s worth of, “If a was true, (insert blatantly obvious contradiction here)” questions that this worse-than-useless dictionary description doesn’t provide answers to.

    And that’s just a… it just gets worse from there on in.

    Let’s rather try this - why do you think labor unions have been historically necessary? After all… if it wasn’t for labor unions, you wouldn’t even have the week-end - or anything resembling safety regulations. Labour unions are a democratic force (in theory - and sometimes in practice) acting on an anti-democratic power structure (ie, a for-profit, privately owned corporation - in this instance)

    If you lived in a democratic society, such a force wouldn’t be necessary, no?