British_Rover
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Supporting specific actions or instances =/= support of the people who make them, and other decisions
No we don't. I can hardly associate our republic with a democracy, partially because the people we elect lie and change their minds. Furthermore, we have zero system for recalling these punks.
Furthermore, the change doesn't depend on people not being ignorant, its dependent on the system changing where the more money you have, the more likely you're going to get elected.
Anyone will believe a lie if it's said often enough.
I just wanted to go back to this because it was never really gone over in detail. The US is absolutely not a democracy. If you want to be very specific the United States is a federal constitutional representative democratic republic.
Yeah I know that is a lot of terms to try and describe a form of government but that is the specific form the US uses and many people in the US don't understand that so it doesn't surprise me that people in Europe don't get it either.