• PuddleOfKittens@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    We usually have things called elections to find out what people want to do.

    How many democratic countries in defensive wars (ones where they have skin in the game) have held elections mid-war? Nobody doubts Britain’s a democracy, but they suspended elections in WW2. And it’s not like Churchill became PM fresh off an election campaign himself.

    • Matty Roses@lemmy.today
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      2 days ago

      Britain didn’t suspend elections in WWII, they used a parliamentary trick to avoid them.

      Nobody doubts Britain’s a democracy

      They’re a monarchy. Without a constitution.