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Re:In Colorado, an Ambitious New Highway Policy Is Not Build... by vundercind on Friday May 31, 2024 @10:21AM (#40535558)
Describing the US as a democracy is totally normal among actual experts in the study of governments (political scientists).
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Re:In Colorado, an Ambitious New Highway Policy Is Not Build... by tomrod on Friday May 31, 2024 @05:40PM (#40540595)
[citation requested]

I've seen representative democracy, and representative republic, but rarely purely one or the other.

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Re:In Colorado, an Ambitious New Highway Policy Is Not Build... by whythre on Saturday June 01, 2024 @04:10PM (#40548694)
Sounds like terminology slip, then. People use the term democracy to describe the US, often in contrast to authoritarian dictatorships; but that is more of a crude definition, a colloquialism rather than an accurate description of US governance.
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