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This gets repeated again and again, but is just wrong. The USA is both a representative democracy and a republic - the same as most other democracies on this p
by welterde 6y ago
This gets repeated again and again, but is just wrong.
The USA is both a representative democracy and a republic - the same as most other democracies on this planet.
Republic just means that the government is a public affair - there is no monarch. It's the opposite of a monarchy.
- slg 6y agoYou are missing the point of my comment. The main focus is not the distinction between democracy and republic. It was that we do not govern ourselves directly. We elect people to do that for us because most of us aren't equipped to do it ourselves. The comment I was replying to called that fascism. I removed the "We are not a democracy." line in my previous comment to refocus it on what I was really trying to say.