It is a somewhat obscure term to many people, but I have used the term “duality” quite often in discussion lately to describe the problem with Artificial Intelligence.
In conversation, I explain the word by saying “There is a duality to almost everything. For example, a hammer can be used to build a beautiful table, but it can also be used to bash someone’s brains in.” (I believe the term is used not for a “duality” of two things that are good, but usually refers to something that has in its nature the ability to be used for both good and evil purposes.)
I have no idea what she means with respect to “Democracy” but I suspect she was probably trying to say the good that comes from representative government (not democracy) is offset by the effort needed to compromise between parties.
But who knows what that idiot meant?
I’m taking it as one word that can represent two different ideas. Dual meanings to the person using the word, one hidden. One meaning masking the other, a code word.
Like I say, we know their true end goal is communism. But they use the word democracy to mask that true goal. So in their minds it would be a duality in meaning because they absolutely know their own agenda is not democracy and are just using it is a code word.
A duality of democracy. Democracy means one thing to us but something totally different to them.