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Many countries include 'Democratic' or 'People's' in their names, even though they are not democratic and do not serve their people. Examples: Democratic People's Republic of Korea Lao People's Democratic Republic People's Democratic Republic of Algeria Democratic Republic of the Congo And German Democratic Republic (East Side) in 1949–1990. None of these states are democratic, power and wealth are concentrated in the hands of a small ruling elite. Who are they fooling with these names?
Same reason nazis put socialist in name but promptly killed off socialists and trade unions.
Like Citizens United bringing the division and destruction
The more corrupt the leaders of a country are, the harder they protest that the country is anything but.
Same reason so many US Republican-created laws that restrict freedom are named after Freedom.
Same reason the USA has 'United' in its name.
Or america, it's just a tiny part of it (and other parts are united too).
Leg of lamb is a dish where one serves a leg that comes from a lamb. The name does not claim that the entire body of the lamb is served.
Yes but when you say leg of lamb, most people don't give a shit which leg you're referring to.
There are multiple sets of states that are united under a single national government and are part of the American continents (Mexico and Brazil, for example) but only one of them claims to be THE United States of America.
"Of" being the operative part of the name. United States OF America. Derivative of the land name given by the European explorers. While it's incorrect to just say "America," you'd probably just be considered annoying if you went around reminding people or pretending not to get it.
Luckily I love being annoying.
Watch Americans get angry when you ask
It’s a reflection of the state’s earlier aspirations—the justification it used to overthrow the preceding authoritarian state.
The problem is, the more drastic the social and political changes are that the new regime is trying to enact—and the more entrenched the preceding regime was—the more tempting it is to turn to authoritarian vanguardist methods to cut through the pushback. But once they start down that path, the means inevitably become the ends and you wind up back where you started.
You can just say whatever you want, words dont mean anything and people will just go with it. Its just marketing
"The free paradise of people's democratic empire of happy humans™®"
same as why maga says its going to make things great or make bills they call beutiful.
Branding!
Is all part of the narrative. More they control it, more they look like the "good guys".
It's an introductory lie. It supposed to get you used to lying.
It doesn't work on everybody. You must be one of "THOSE".
Probably for the same reasons you do not visit the forum, do not own slaves, and let women vote. You have a different understanding of democracy than the ancient Greeks. That is how it is with them too.
Because they started off as communist revolutions
A revolution without a solid, detailed plan for how to actually run the country afterword is just teenage angst exercised at a larger scale.
"We're going to be a social anarchist commune!" does not count as a plan. It's an aspiration at best.
If there is no plan laid out, with strong community buy-in, then what always happens is that the "revolution" gets co-opted by someone to serve their own power-hungry ambitions.
They have a concept of a plan
and fascists took advantage of the resulting power vacuum.
Cause you expect the west hegemonic definition of democratic.
In the West we've been getting 50/50 splits on voting, whereas out east it's all 99/sent for re-education. Which of these seems more hegemonic to you?
Elections≠Democracy. Again, you are expecting liberal west (or hegemonic) "democracy". I am not making a moral judgement of either, just trying to explain that the definition of democracy that has been shoved to the people's brain of the global north (hegemony) is not the only or the correct one.
