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And America isn't a democracy, it's a Republic.

• yndoendo 1y ago
  When the Presided of the USA is no longer bound by the Constitution, written law, it is no longer.
  • thyristan 1y ago
    Funnily enough, it isn't even a constitutional monarchy then, it regresses beyond that to an absolute monarchy.
    • rbanffy 1y ago
      The fact remains the country, as defined by its laws, should be a democracy. Its people will have a lot of stuff to fix in a couple years.
• OneDeuxTriSeiGo 1y ago
  This is the most infuriatingly incorrect statement. America is a democracy AND it's a republic AND a bunch of other stuff. The full description is that America is a Federal Constitutional Representative Democratic Republic.
  • rbanffy 1y ago
    Technically “America” is a continent. The country is called “United States of America”. ;-) And yes, saying it’s not a democracy infuriates me as well, because it’s being used to justify a whole lot of undemocratic shenanigans.
    • OneDeuxTriSeiGo 1y ago
      Lol I almost went for that pedantry. However technically America is not a continent (under most definitions of continent) but North and South America are. :P
      • rbanffy 1y ago
        America would then be the whole land mass. Or something like that.
      • SllX 1y ago
        Unless you grew up in a place that taught a six-continent model instead of a seven-continent model and it was NA/SA consolidated instead of Europe and Asia into Eurasia. Also: continents are bullshit. Also also: America is the United States of America in the English-speaking world.
        • rbanffy 1y ago
          I don't hear it being called "America" here in Ireland. The only place I hear it is in the US, which is how I call it.
          • SllX 1y ago
            If somebody says "America" to you in Ireland, are you confused about what they are talking about? That's the difference.
            • rbanffy 1y ago
              I’ll immediately know I’m talking to someone from the US. It’s a bit like someone saying the hood of a car and we understanding they are referring to the bonnet. We don’t call it “hood” here, or, I suspect, anywhere else in the English speaking world.
              • SllX 1y ago
                > We don’t call it “hood” here, or, I suspect, anywhere else in the English speaking world. Canadians use "hood", or at least I've never heard one refer to the "bonnet" of their car, although apparently "bonnet" is supposedly still used in Newfoundland.
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  • apple4ever 1y ago
    No a Federal Constitutional Republic captures it perfectly. We are not a Democracy.
• Biganon 1y ago
  Oh my god I cannot stand reading this anymore, why do so many people parrot that like it's some gotcha phrase. "A cat is not a pet, it's a feline." Things can be multiple things at once. The US are a republic and a democracy. Republic = not a kingdom, democracy = power to the people. Close but not exact synonyms.