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A representative democracy where representatives are chosen not by the people but by the networks that fund, nominate, and protect them. Constituents get a voice, but the real conversations happen in back rooms where representatives and donors trade favors. Legislative sessions become theater while actual decisions are made in private meetings. The representative is supposed to represent the people, but in crony representative democracy, they represent the networks that put them there.
Example: "The congressman held town halls, answered letters, and voted the way his donors told him to. Crony representative democracy: representation for the public, loyalty for the cronies."
by Abzugal March 22, 2026
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late stage democracy

a liberal democracy in which the politicians and bureaucrats behave like chimpanzees on LSD. they throw shit at their peers, and eat food that they know they have stolen but will receive no consequences due to them being "StAtE OfFiCiAlS".

the congress of this democracy seemingly cannot function without pork barrel politics. the congress doubles as a retirement home and mental asylum, or sometimes a massive sex offender registry.

this democracy will last only until a war breaks out, and will go back to a normal democratic system but fade slowly into late stage democracy once more.

common late stage democracies include but aren't limited to; the united states, the united kingdom, canada, and hungary.
"OMG DRUMP IS GONNA DESTROY OUR DEMOCRACY"

"we will always be a democracy, a late stage democracy."
by ¡AFUERA! enjoyer December 31, 2024
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spoon-fed democracy

a "democratic" society that was implemented by colonial government and not gain from organic grassroots revolutionary movement of the proletariat
hong kong in the late era of colonization is an example of a spoon-fed democracy by the imperial british empire
by soundchecked123 January 27, 2026
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the basic NPC line right-wing demagogues say on TV when a threat to the ruling class's profits shows up
"China uses virtual reality in their schools!"
"This is extremely dangerous to our democracy"
by fatherless 124 March 14, 2024
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