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I distinction without a difference here. This part of the election process is purely direct democracy, the next part is the representative democracy portion.
No. There is a difference. In a Republic, representatives are democratically elected by the people.
The difference being: In a Constitutional Republic, where the Constitution is the Supreme Law of the Land, a majority rules, with the rights, freedoms, and liberties, of the people, individuals, protected. In a Republic, the majority means 50.1 percent of the citizenry rule the other 49.9 percent. But that minority still has their rights intact and protected.
In a democracy, it is mob rule where the majority can, and does, restricts, suppresses, limits, outlaws, charges fees, requires licenses for their practice, or criminalize the rights, freedoms, and liberties of the people, individuals. Democracy is dictatorship of the majority which means 50.1 percent of the citizenry rule, by dictate, the other 49.9 percent. That minority has no rights except those the condescending majority grants. Also those in power in a democracy, enjoy many rights and privileges that the people are not allowed. Sound familiar?
democracy
dĭ-mŏk′rə-sē
noun
- Government by the people, exercised either directly or through elected representatives.
- A political or social unit that has such a government.
- The common people, considered as the primary source of political power.
re·pub·lic
/rəˈpəblik/
a state in which supreme power is held by the people by and through their elected representatives.
Now why in the hell would we fight a revolutionary war against a democracy, through a monarchy, to just instill and create another such government as a democracy? We didn't. As Benjamin Franklin said of it: “Democracy is two wolves and lamb voting on what to have for lunch”.
In the Pledge of Allegiance, there is this phrase, just in case you are unfamiliar with it .... "I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the
Republic for which it stands, ..."
The oath of enlistment for one that joins the service is “I, ____________________, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the
Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God.”
In that Constitution there is this phrase in: Article IV, Section 4: The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a
Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.
As a mater of fact, the word democracy is nowhere in the US Constitution.
You have been successfully programmed by all the anti-American propaganda. You must enjoy living under the yoke of tyrants. Because in a democracy, tyrants rule and they use the force government to command, and ensure, obedience. As you have said many times, under different contexts, blasted government's overreach and stupidly ad nauseam. (Which is great btw to bring those issues to light). However, what you are bitching about are issues arriving from government operating as a democracy instead of as a Constitutional Republic.