Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-174.22.192.132-20161104024309/@comment-29212992-20161215123429

Rocket Engineer wrote: ZTrok wrote: The U.S is classified as a democracy whether you like it or not, it's a fact. And honestly there is no "real" democracy as it is more of an idea rather than a physical thing, thus it can vary based on the person. How is the U.S. a democracy? Do all the people vote on every single issue that comes up? It's a democratic republic (or federal republic, It depends on who you ask). There's where your mistaken, you are thinking of a direct democracy, however the U.S is considered a representative democracy, where we elect people with like minds to vote on issues and laws as we would.