Look out, choppie, here comes Captain Obvious to inform you and the rest of us, who have never heard it before, that we are not a democracy, but SHOCK! a Republic, as if any other country in the world today (which is what the all-knowing Captain Obvious doesn’t know!) was what he and few others (mis)understand as “democracy”.
My mistake. I should have said republic. The post is still valid. I am sure most understood the context. I apologize for my mistake.