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hap0206, Not fucking sorry to point out you have used that obviously wrong CONservative talking point
long before some others did. And though we have debunked it more than a few times, here is one more:

Is America a democracy or a republic? Yes, it is

Ron Elving September 10, 20225:00 AM ET

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Despite the lack of evidence, and the judgments of election officials from both parties and judges appointed by presidents from both parties, election denialism has become not only a thing, but a movement. And when critics call this an attack on democracy, some election deniers respond by saying the U.S. is not a democracy, it is a republic.

Robert Draper of The New York Times published a piece .. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/15/magazine/arizona-republicans-democracy.html .. on Republicans who say this in August. He cited a GOP candidate for the Arizona state legislature, Selina Bliss, saying: "We are not a democracy. Nowhere in the Constitution does it use the word 'democracy.' I think of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. That's not us."

But a democratic republic is us. Exactly.

Throughout our history we have functioned as both. Put another way, we have utilized characteristics of both. The people decide, but they do so through elected representatives working in pre-established, rule-bound and intentionally balky institutions such as Congress and the courts.

The government seated in Washington, D.C., represents a democratic republic, which governs a federated union of states, each of which in turn has its own democratic-republican government for its jurisdiction.

[Insert: hap0206, Experts worldwide and more people than not believe the climate science. Trump pulled America
out of the 2015 Paris Agreement. Trump's isolationism in neither good for America nor good for the world.
Trump's top five withdrawals from international agreements
[... to end ... ]
Trump and McConnell have already turned the SCOTUS into a court more like Putin's than it should be in a healthy democratic republic. Netanyahu attempted to pass legislation to help Israel's top law body to ignore in future the wishes of the people's parliament. He withdrew the legislation after mass protests. If reelected Trump would turn America into a Republic much more akin to Putin's. No doubt about that.
P - Netahyahu has directly attacked Iran now. That would likely boost Trump's election prospects.]

The relationship between the democratic and republican elements of this equation has been a dynamic and essential part of our history. But it has not always been easy, and in our time the friction between them has become yet another flashpoint in our partisan wars.

https://www.npr.org/2022/09/10/1122089076/is-america-a-democracy-or-a-republic-yes-it-is