Agree. I take every opportunity to inject the fact that we are a Republic into conversations. The idea of democracy is thrown around in common conversation and especially by media so often that the populace is dumbed down to the difference between a Republic and a democracy. So many people will respond, “it’s the same thing.” This is a falsehood perpetrated by socialism to destabilize our Republic and take over.
I know you probably feel the same way...I have to sometimes bite my tongue, because I hear people say “democracy” and I have to accept they often know what they are trying to say, but are being imprecise or lazy.
A lot of people use it interchangeably, and as you said...it isn’t!