When somebody says "X is democratic" or "Y is not democratic" I find it's often very helpful to compare it to the original. By that token, we're not a democrac

When somebody says "X is democratic" or "Y is not democratic" I find it's often very helpful to compare it to the original. By that token, we're not a democracy right now, and ranked-choice voting -- far from making things worse -- is a small step in the right direction. (And plebiscites on all important bills would be far better still.) Read the classics. Everything important about politics, and about the classification of political structures, has already been hashed out. > relevant to anything today nor to how we define the word. I take it you have a better definition?