[bigbadfeline]

> The USA is not a democracy, it is a constitutional republic.

I'm not sure why this basic issue is constantly attacked with the nonsensical claim that a republic is not a democracy. There are two forms of democracy - direct (never tried in the West) and representative (aka republic). In short, for all intends and purposes, the US and all other western democracies are both democracies and republics. And that's that.

The confusion goes back all the way to Hamilton who might have been too busy effing around to understand the difference.