America is not a Democracy [View All]

It is a representative republic, with some democratic principles (which are slipping away very fast)

<snip> From wikipedia:
Democracy (literally "rule by the people", from the Greek δημοκρατία-demokratia demos, "people," and kratos, "rule") is a form of government
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In fact, Bush and his cronies pride themselves on not listening to public opinion, as they state so often. In doing so, they demonstrate that after all, they really despise democracy.

If this were a democracy, we would be leaving Iraq right now.

I despise people who talk about "spreading democracy", when they have such a shallow and childish understanding of what the word really means.