Actually we are a democracy. Your propagandists have really twisted you tards' minds. You all have been parroting this horseshit for a while now. I've lost count of how many of your fellow rubes have been saying this recently.
Talk about cult groupthink!
The echo chamber is real. There isn't a single original thought in any of your heads.
And now for your edification, we are a democratic republic. In other words, a republic AND a democracy.
I would recommend you read this speech, but I know you are too dumb to understand the big words:
Democracy's Next Battle by Ronald Reagan.
I consider it a aagedy that at some campuses in my own country, those who hold unfashionable ideas are hooted off the stage, or denied a forum in the first place. What a travesty of intellectual inquiry; what a perversion of the great chaotic, yet essential, marketplace of ideas that we call democracy. But then, I have always believed, ar home and abroad, that the only cure for what ails democracy is -- more democracy.
Your bumper sticker intellectual bandwidth most definitely could not handle this book, probably the greatest nonfiction book ever written, and which I wish was required reading for every American: