You are taking the label too literally, applying the "mob rule" definition to the word, democracy. Even though we're a democratic republic, we are still a democracy.
If a nation has free and fair elections, coupled by competing parties with varied representative interests, it can be classified as a democracy.
democracy. government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system. a state having such a form of government: The United States and Canada are democracies. http://www.dictionary.com/browse/democracy
"There is a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in" --Leonard Cohen
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daddie0
8 years ago
I take your point, and wasn't arguing we are not a democracy as such (notice my quotation marks to make the term's use suspect), but rather challenging Little_C's comment:
A nation that claims "one man, one vote" and has the nut voted that doesn't have the majority of votes, is pretty dumb.
Many similar indictments against the US form of government seem to be ill-informed on the actual structure we use. In this case, Little_C functions under the misunderstanding that "majority of votes" should win in any "democracy." I was just trying to clarify a bit.
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centrd
8 years ago
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"There is a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in" --Leonard Cohen
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MoviemanCin
8 years ago
No centrd. We are NOT a democracy. We are a Representative Republic. Where were you when you were supposed to be in your History and Civics classes? Or do they even still teach those courses in the wretched liberal school system of today?
Schrodinger's cat walks into a bar and doesn't.
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centrd
8 years ago
We are both. Do you have a comprehension problem?
Damn right we're snowflakes! Winter is coming!
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