[the_only_law]

Because it's a lazy boring way to try to detail a thread. You're arguing something that the other people aren't even saying . Anyone with a half working brain who's gone outside in the last 20 years understands colloquial use of words.

[tylersmith]

They're saying they want to live in a more democratic place. We're saying the US isn't and won't be that place. It's an actual, incompatible disagreement on how much individual people should affect the government not just a debate about wording.

Colloquial misuse of the word only sets people up for disappointment when they find out that a government they call a democracy isn't one.

[the_only_law]

You seem to think yourself the arbiter of language, when you are not:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representative_democracy

This is about as useful as arguing about communism vs socialism, you may be right, in the typical HN pedant way, but all that does it make dumb threads dumber.