Pleas skip the ASMNSSW bull**** - it's total vapid and useless.
No, it's something you need to comprehend.
And I already schooled you last week as to how we are a democracy, so scroll back and re-read our exchange last week, the one that sent you running to the schoolyard so that you could learn new taunts, because after I was done with you, that's all you had left.
Your only argument is that the founding fathers rejected the notion of Athenian direct democracy and chose a constitutional republic.
Are our lawmakers appointed by royal edict? Do our presidents pick them from a book of names?
Is there some American equivalent to a loya jirga or an Iranian Council of Experts that selects our officials?
No, they are democratically elected by the American people, as is our president.
Our Constitution contains a Bill of Rights and, to date, seventeen more amendments, many of which hinge on democratic principles such as free speech, prohibition against unlawful search and seizure, the right of women to vote, defining citizenship, privileges or immunities, due process, equal protection, the very right of people to be free of involuntary servitude, the right to trial by a jury of peers, right to protection against self incrimination, the right to directly elect senators by popular vote, and many more.
Constitutional republics ARE democracies. In our last exchange I asked you to name a single constitutional republic which is NOT a democracy. You never answered.
That's because constitutional republics ARE democracies.
You ARE one of those "people pushing the Athenian Straw Man Nonexistent Threat of Slippery Slope Windyfoggery (ASMNSSW) with regard to DEMOCRACY".
You ARE the authoritarian who cannot comprehend the meaning of democracy in the modern era, you
ARE the person who hates democracy.
