When Alexander of Macedon conquered and pillaged much of the known world over two thousand years ago, he claimed that he did so to spread 'democracy.'
by c l basile January 22, 2004
by Jackie, IQ 140 September 12, 2005
An electoral type of government in which the person who has the majority of the popular vote takes office.
by easy e February 3, 2003
(in britain) Form of government in which only the views of minorities are considered valid. The majority opinion is disregarded as inherently prejudiced.
by Walkin Dude January 27, 2004
Whatever ideologies and policies the United States and her allies enforce and incentivize abroad. This is always a source of butthurt for the targets of the campaigns to spread it.
The people of Afghanistan and Iraq were suffering from a lack of democracy, so the generous government of the United States, suffering from an overabundance of it, dropped over 9000 bombs on them and then sent their kind soldiers in to personally hand it to the citizens of the two troubled countries. Look how well they are doing now!
by Kooyle March 28, 2023
What Americans and some other european nations think they have. What America actually has is a representative republic, where the people have to choose between 2 candidates (the others dont really matter, and no one ever votes for the green party) A democracy is where a nation is ruled by its people, rather than one person who gets into power using lies and then doesn't listen to public opinion. What a good government would be is that someone is voted into power, and all major decisions put forward by the government are voted on by the public. The person in power has the ultimate decision, unless there is a big majority vote against him/her i.e. more than 60%
by Count Vladimir Varkovsky April 14, 2004