The USA is not a democracy, we a Democratic Republic.
The hill as usual prints Schiff.
If we were a Democracy I could see us voting for a law requiring all registered Democrats to drink a deadly dose of Hemlock.
A democracy is a political system in which the people periodically, by majority vote at the polls, select their rulers. The rulers then have absolute power to make whatever laws they please, by majority vote among themselves.In history and present times, those regimes named “democratic republic” have been communist dictatorships (e.g. East Germany, North Korea).
In a constitutional Republic, the people also, by majority vote at the polls, select rulers, who make laws by majority vote among themselves; but the rulers cannot make any laws they please because the Constitution severely restricts their lawmaking power.
The ideal of a democracy is universal equality. The ideal of a constitutional Republic is individual liberty.
In this century, great strides have been made toward the goal of subverting our Republic and transforming it into a democracy. One tactic of the subverters is subversion of language. By calling the United States a democracy until people thoughtlessly accept and use the term, totalitarians have obscured the real meaning of our principles of government.
— Dan Smoot Report, 1966
We are a representative republic. The word democracy is nowhere in our founding documents. In fact, the constitution in article IV, section 4, refers to our form of governance as “a republican form”. Nothing there containing the words democratic, democracy or democrat.