So I'm going to exercise more care this year with how I use the word "democracy", because it's also a human construct, and different "species" of democracy don't begin and end cleanly. They're labels we put on loose groupings of sociopolitical factors that exist along a spectrum.
Just as lifeforms can undergo selection pressures quickly, so too can a gradual spectrum of sociopolitical factors shift rapidly. We need to name the specific political "morphologies" we're trying to avoid instead. 2/2
😅 Okay, no - now I have a whole article in mind. More on this soon.