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It seems like you are talking about Iran here, not the US.Did I say the US is not a democracy ? I said the US was never intended to have direct democracy.
The US is a democracy. But direct democracy is about the process or application of the mechanisms of democracy, and there are many mechanisms, or methods, of democracy. That is the crucial difference that you and the other ya-hoo failed to understand.
The US is a democratic republic.
re·pub·lic
riˈpəblik/
noun
Direct democracy was severely criticized by the American Founders. Each of them have different ideas -- as in mechanisms -- on how the people chose their agents to speak for their diverse interests. Up one level -- representatives -- is what make the US a republic. The result: a democratic republic.
- a state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch.
And please do not try your mechanisms theory; there is real democracy as in social democracy where people have an all time say, regardless of whom they chose as representatives, anytime and at any level, so they really govern themselves in a true democratic way. The US is a republic democracy in regards to a monarchy, but its main intent is the same, read; feudal system, where a very few dictate what the other 250 million should do, think and eat, call it what you want, this is dictatorship in disguise. the only difference is that it is not in the hands of one person but a few, and eventhough, maybe those very few are controlled themselves by fewer ones, up till some secret dictator voted on covertly, which seems like some messianic lodge.
It all leads logically to the founding fathers and the writers of the a constitution that is not respected, not than and not now, belonged to some messianic lodge(s) and were hypocrites, since, as you say it yourself, it was never intended for true democracy.
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