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That's friendofdenesh.com. Coming up, we hear a lot about democracy, but I'm going to

argue against the idea that America's a pure democracy. I'm going to note that we don't have a

parliamentary system like England or India. I'm going to do some vote counting to see if Kevin

McCarthy has the votes to make it as House Speaker. I'll tell you the result. I'll show why Joe

Manchin has in West Virginia no political future in my view except as a Republican.

And drawing on my work on Christian apologetics, I'm going to go a little bit in depth and show

the Christian roots of the idea of religious freedom and also limited government. This is the

Dineshthas who's a show. America needs this voice. The times are crazy and the time of confusion,

division and lies. We need a brave voice of reason, understanding and truth. This is the Dineshthasusa

podcast. The title of this episode of this podcast is Are We a Democracy? And I sometimes do this.

I'll have a thematic title as opposed to a title that picks up on something in the news.

But the reason I do this is because we have these big words, these ideas that are used

democracy. Republicans are enemies of democracy. Democracy is on the ballot. Democracy is threatened.

These kinds of things. And I think it's helpful from time to time to try to clarify what it is that

we mean. Now there's a common habit on the right whenever I use the term democracy. Even though

I've thought a lot about the term and I don't use it easily or promiscuously, people say,

well, Dineshtha, I don't know a mind you that we're not a democracy, we're a republic. And the

people who say that are making an important point, which it's not that I don't agree with. But I

also don't agree that we should repudiate completely the concept of democracy. We're not a pure

democracy. And we're not a pure democracy in two senses, which I'm going to explicate.

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