USATF, run by democrats... wrote:
Dear moron,
The fact that we go to vote is the "democratic" process. Once again, the left has hijacked a word and idiots like Sean Hannity enable the use with his repeated usage of the word "democratic". The democrat is a far from democratic as they come.
Words have meaning.
In all of that post the one thing you chose to quarrel with is a semantic distinction without a difference - other that the conservative spin you wanted to give it?
Get off your soap box. Words do have meaning - and in no way do you and your conservative cohorts have the authority - or the good sense - to determine exactly what is and isn't accurate. That little spin fest spiel couldn't be anymore emblematic of the irrationality typical of a conservative in full self-destruct mode, quarreling over the meaning of a word your own movement has politically charged just because, well...you're self-destructing.
Go sit down.
Is the USA a democracy or a republic?
http://www.thomhartmann.com/forum/2010/03/usa-democracy-or-republicIf you want the most technical term, our country is a constitutionally limited representative democratic republic. Our form of government, the constitution limits the power of government. We elect representatives, so it's not a pure democracy. But we do elect them by majority rule so it is democratic. And the form of, the infrastructure, the total form of government, is republican, it is a republic.