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		ArnoVW on Nov 7, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for d... Or as his contemporary French lawyer / philosopher Joseph de Maistre said: Toute nation a le gouvernement qu'elle mérite (Every nation gets the government it deserves)

throw0101a on Nov 7, 2020 [–]

> Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

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