A Republican Senator knows less about American government than an immigrant undergoing basic civics training. Discuss.

There is a BIG difference, Moron.

I don't think "Democratic Republic" is the direction you want to necessarily go

That specific pairing of words has been used and abused beyond belief

That said: As I explained below, we are in fact both a democracy and a republic

But please feel free to explain what the hell you mean by Democratic Republic

You obviously never took a civics class or paid attention in a political science class. If you have a degree my money is on : Gender Studies.

You're harping on your own definition but doing nothing to define it, instead resorting to invective and insults to paper over your lack of knowledge

I've already stated that we're both a democracy and a republic

If you want to know the reason why, just look up both terms in the dictionary.

Matter of fact, I've already saved those definitions as templates so here ya go

It is an accurate statement to simply call America a democracy

It's also accurate to call America a republic

However, when Republicans loudly insist America is a republic and *not* a democracy, they are typically doing so for nefarious reasons

3 Replies makes me think your getting triggered.Think I'll leave you here while typing while I hop on the Harley and go for a ride in the country. You enjoy now.

They don't teach kids anything meaningful in schools nowadays. Democracy is mob rule in which the largest voting block automatically gets its way no matter what, and that's why the United States is a representative republic instead and why the Constitution is designed to modify and sometimes thwart Mob Rule so that there can neither be a sustained tyranny of the majority over the minority NOR a sustained tyranny of the minority over the majority.

If all of you leftists had been taught this in school rather than the Social Engineering, Politically Correct, Social Justice Warrior crapola instead, most of you would now be better citizens today.

Benjamin Franklin
“Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what they are going to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.”

That doesn’t sound like Ben Franklin.

https://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin

As I suspected, this is an invented and misattributed quote which is no doubt going to being used by right-wingnuts to grab their guns and have a boogaloo if their precious orange man loses in November.

No. That is not democracy. THAT’S mob rule.

Your reaching...

In a republic, an official set of fundamental laws, like the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights, prohibits the government from limiting or taking away certain “inalienable” rights of the people, even if that government was freely chosen by a majority of the people. In a pure democracy, the voting majority has almost limitless power over the minority.
The United States, like most modern nations, is neither a pure republic nor a pure democracy. Instead, it is a hybrid democratic republic.
https://www.thoughtco.com/republic-vs-democracy-4169936 ________________________________________
Sen Mike Lee: The word “democracy” appears nowhere in the Constitution, perhaps because our form of government is not a democracy. It’s a constitutional republic. To me it matters. It should matter to anyone who worries about the excessive accumulation of power in the hands of the few. 9:06 PM • Oct 7, 2020
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This preference for republicanism over and against democracy was especially pronounced in America’s Founding political documents and in the numerous writings that justified and explained them.
The word “democracy” is found neither in the Declaration of Independence nor in our Constitution.
The term “republic,” however, does appear in the Constitution.6
https://www.heritage.org/american-founders/report/america-republic-not-democracy
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He's probably referring to America being a republic.

I won’t hide the ball: yes, America is also a republic.

But those aren’t mutually-exclusive terms.

Don’t let the fact that there are “Republican” and “Democratic” Parties that oppose each other confuse the issue.

Indeed: Democrats now are much better than the Democrats of decades ago, as conservatives never fail to point out with their talk of Jim Crow and slavery and whatnot.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 that you’ll see LBJ signing here was an important step that set Democrats on a path toward being the party of racial justice, to the point that Democrats today command 90+% of the black vote, elected the first black President and are poised to elect the country’s first black female VP (and first female VP ever for that matter), etc. etc.

That said, Democratic Party rule does not equal democracy in America.

Nor does Republican Party rule equal being a republic.

A lot of folks in the GOP these days even those who have been elected need to go back to basic middle school civics.

Well, he's correct ironically. America is at best a flawed democracy, at worst an oligarchy.