Hmmm...The Republic was dissolved many decades ago.
IAC, there is no such thing as a "democratic" republic. This was the reason the Founders frowned on such a possibility because of historical failure rates and created a Constitutional Republic.
Unfortunately, beginning with T.Roosevelt, the Republic was gradually dissolved until by the late 1960's it no longer existed.
We have now arrived at the endgame that has been inevitable for every time democratic government has been tried since Adam & Eve. We are now staring into the abyss that many have warned about. As Ronald Reagan prophesied in 1964, we are entering a thousand years of the darkest tyranny.
Even with clean sweeps of all the marxist scum in 2010 and 2012, it will be only a temporary slowing of the Nation's headlong plummet. There isn't time, at this juncture, to flush the government school system and the morons who commit their offspring to those asylums. It took 5 decades for the Fabians to fully indoctrinate several generations of the government's children thereby creating the mindless moronic 60-70% of the population. We don't have several generations to undo the damage.
If we had paid attention in the 1960's and 70's, there would have been a reasonable possibility fo reestablishing the Republic.
Best post in this thread,BRAVO!