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Originally posted by zzgundamnzz
Hate to break it to you but the US has never been a complete democracy...
Its a republic.
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I don't know why people keep saying this.
leaders are elected in a democratic process and the government is structured similar to a republic since a one-man, one-vote government could not operate on this scale. I guess you could call it a democratic-republic but it was/is the intention of the founders to be more of a democracy than anything.
The former USSR was a republic.
It's that democratic process that is in danger. Not that it has existed as more than an illusion for a long time anyway.