LOL
Hate to break this to you - but - we never have been.
America is a REPUBLIC
Hate to break this to you, but we are a DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC. We have a little thing in this country called free elections and REPRESENTATIVE Democracy that I wouldn't want to live here without.
You seem to have a difficult time understanding that a country can be both a democratic state AND a soviegn republic.
Feel free to visit THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA if you want to see an example of a soviegn Republic that has NO democracy. They've been a proud UNDEMOCRATIC Republic since 1949!