There are at least two ways of thinking about how a democratic system functions.
One model is to imagine democracy as conflict. People have interests - material, social, cultural, and moral. They vote for the legislation or politician who best represents those interests. In this model, a group is “in power” when they accumulate more votes than another g…
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