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22 days agoThe US has spent a lot of time and effort trying to stamp out left-wing governments around the world. Here’s a decent summary of their involvement in South and Central America: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_regime_change_in_Latin_America
That still doesn’t make it undemocratic. If anything, whipped votes are the undemocratic part. Crossing the floor is a feature of our democracy, not a bug.