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Re:The Revolution Against the Revolution: Looking Back on Sh... by dragonwriter on Thursday August 16, 2018 @01:31PM (#17776742)
> We are not in a Democracy. We live in a Republic.

The Soviet Union was a nondemocratic federal republic—a federal republic that is not a democracy.

Many Americans would prefer the US to be a democratic federal republic, that is, a federal republic that is also a representative democracy.

A nondemocratic republic is not a goverment of, by, and for the people. It is, at best, just the last of those three.

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Re:The Revolution Against the Revolution: Looking Back on Sh... by ameister14 on Thursday August 16, 2018 @01:38PM (#17776827)
The reason I focus on Republic over Democracy is because we do not live in a system with complete and proportional representation. We live in a system where the Executive and Legislative is separated and where there is a somewhat uneven distribution of power in terms of population.
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