Comment Re:Technically... (Score 1) 1277
We're a democratic republic.
We're a republic because we're not a monarchy and instead represented solely by elected representatives. We're a democracy because the people have a vote and voice in the government.
Another democratic republic is India (The Republic of India)
Sweden, by virtue of being a monarchy, is a democratic and constitutional monarchy but not a republic
Saudi Arabia, an absolute monarchy, is a non-democratic monarchy.
Switzerland has direct democracy, but is still a republic.
Libya is a republic, since it has no monarchy, but is not a democracy, either.
Everyone get the difference now? The only reason the government has been trying to shift the definitions of "republic" and "democracy" are for political reasons, and wanting to emphasize the Republican Party at the expense of the Democrats, and also possibly to de-emphasize the one-man, one-vote principle. "I'm sorry, did you actually want your vote to count? Sorry, but we're not a democracy, if your vote counts, it'll inevitably lead to the tyranny of the majority!" (never mind that we have constitutional protections against that, and that the clearest example of tyranny of the majority was Prop 8 in California denying the rights of homosexuals).