Splitting hairs over the difference between a democracy and a democratic-republic misses the point. China, Russia, even North Korea, are all constitutional republics. Do you want to live in a country with a dictatorship like that? I don’t.
That implies our elected officials represent the will of their electorate. They do not. They represent the will of their corporate owners, “campaign donors”. It is a plutocracy.
It was never a democracy because it is a constitutional republic.
Splitting hairs over the difference between a democracy and a democratic-republic misses the point. China, Russia, even North Korea, are all constitutional republics. Do you want to live in a country with a dictatorship like that? I don’t.
That implies our elected officials represent the will of their electorate. They do not. They represent the will of their corporate owners, “campaign donors”. It is a plutocracy.
Please learn what words actually mean instead of just spouting off shit you’ve seen other people say.
A constitutional republic is a form of representative democracy.
*sign* It was never a direct democracy. That is but one sort of democracy.
Much like there is “water”, which as a pure chemical is H2O - but most of the water we encounter isn’t actually pure water.