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The United States isn't a democracy. It's a Republic. A lot of the apparent jingoism was first WWII propaganda, then cold War propaganda. Prior to that, America
by ArkyBeagle 10y ago
The United States isn't a democracy. It's a Republic. A lot of the apparent jingoism was first WWII propaganda, then cold War propaganda. Prior to that, Americans simply considered the rest of the world to be mostly irredeemably corrupt.
I don't know if we can determine Trump's actual opinion on climate change. He's opportunistically jumping on a bandwagon.
- snuxoll 10y agoA democratic republic is still a democracy, albiet an indirect one.
- vkou 10y agoNorth Korea is a Republic. Communist China is a republic. The Soviet Union was a republic. Russia is a republic. None of them are democratic. Canada is not a republic. The United Kingdom is not a republic. Those countries are democracies. The United States is a republic... And a democracy. All that being a republic means is that you are not governed by a monarch. Whether or not you are a democracy is completely orthogonal to whether or not you are a republic.
- jonathankoren 10y ago>The United States isn't a democracy. It's a Republic. I'm really really tired of this misinformation. A republic simply means that you're a democracy without a king. Whether it's direct or representative democracy is immaterial. Unless you somehow think that Canada is a republic and France is not.
- Mtinie 10y agoPedantic correction, just because we are dealing with a topic where specificity matters and nuance can mean the difference between "acceptable" and "not allowed". The United States of America is formally a constitutional republic. http://www.conservapedia.com/Constitutional_Republic http://www.conservapedia.com/Constitutional_Republic