Originally Posted by pocketkangaroo

No it's not, learn what a true Democracy is. Learn our nation's history. Read the Constitution for christ sake. The entire thing was setup so that we wouldn't have a true democracy. Our founding fathers hated the concept of democracy and it doesn't appear once in the Declaration of Independence or Constitution. The Federalist Papers even come out and definitively state we are not a Democracy but a Republic.

A constitutional Republic means that your representatives are not guided necessarily by your wishes, but by the rule of law. Our elected officials don't take an oath of office to their party or their people, but to the Constitution. We are only similar to a democracy in the fact that we use a democratic process to elect our representatives.

Democracy is a misused word. It is used by people who don't know history or proper civics.