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He redefines democracy to mean only direct democracy, for example as the kind sometimes practiced (to tyrannical effect) in ancient Greece. This is a clear example of the No True Scotsman fallacy and it denies or rejects the widespread contemporary understanding of the term that incorporates the liberal traditions and which presupposes as normal limits on democracy so as to prevent the tyranny of the majority.
— Jul 18, 2025 05:58PM
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von Leddihn is immediately suspect for claiming that the only "true" definition of democracy is direct democracy and that democracy is entirely and irreconcilably at odds with individual liberty. This is bafflingly ignorant because even the America of his day was a representative democracy that was carefully designed to be so by the Founding Fathers from whom he so liberally quotes. A basic category error.
— Jul 18, 2025 05:52PM
