The government that was chosen and set forth in the founding documents which are the law of this land is a republic. It is NOT a form of democracy. In a republic, individual rights are the final word; in a democracy, 49% of the people are at the mercy of 51% of the rest of the people. There are no individual rights, only group “rights”. This group historically destroys their democracy because they vote for more and more “freebies” until there’s nothing left. It becomes mob rule at some point.
No, that is just one type of democracy, called a pure democracy. It is not true of all democracies.
There are other types of democracies. One is a democratic republic, or just republic, which the United States is.
Look it up. Look up 'democracy' and look up 'republic' in any good dictionary and then check out the synonyms for the two. Guess what? They are synonymous. It is 100% correct to call the United States a democracy. It is a type of democracy called a republic.
A republic is a democracy. At least historically. Nowadays, you've got all kinds of dictatorships trying to co-opt both titles in an attempt to gain legitimacy.
Furthermore, rights have nothing to do with it. Rights are recognized in the constitution of a constitutional form of government (which the United States also is). Once again, look it up. There is nothing about rights in the definition of a republic. Without a constitution to guarantee those rights, any rights one may think he has can be stripped away in a republic almost as easily as in a pure democracy. All you need are representatives with squishy backbones and your rights can vanish in a republic. A constitution gives your rights an extra layer of protection. But even a constitution can be attacked and torn down, as we are seeing happen before our very eyes.