Re:EPA Science Under Scrutiny by Trump Political Staff
by jonathankoren on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @07:42PM
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>The United States isn't a democracy. It's a Republic.
I'm really really tired of this misinformation.
A republic simply means that you're a democracy without a king.
Whether it's direct or representative democracy is immaterial.
Unless you somehow think that Canada is a republic and France is not.
Re:EPA Science Under Scrutiny by Trump Political Staff
by Mtinie on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @08:27PM
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Pedantic correction, just because we are dealing with a topic where specificity matters and nuance can mean the difference between "acceptable" and "not allowed".
The United States of America is formally a constitutional republic.
Re:EPA Science Under Scrutiny by Trump Political Staff
by snuxoll on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @07:35PM
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A democratic republic is still a democracy, albiet an indirect one.
Re:EPA Science Under Scrutiny by Trump Political Staff
by vkou on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @07:39PM
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North Korea is a Republic. Communist China is a republic. The Soviet Union was a republic. Russia is a republic.
None of them are democratic.
Canada is not a republic. The United Kingdom is not a republic.
Those countries are democracies.
The United States is a republic... And a democracy.
All that being a republic means is that you are not governed by a monarch. Whether or not you are a democracy is completely orthogonal to whether or not you are a republic.
I don't know if we can determine Trump's actual opinion on climate change. He's opportunistically jumping on a bandwagon.