Subj : Attempted assassination o To : Dumas Walker From : Denn Date : Sat Jul 20 2024 06:46 pm > This may be an education system thing. In school, I think most people are > taught where democracy is used specifically to mean in the direct sense, as > defined above. > IMHO, many of our politicians also use it incorrectly. > I was taught that we are a Representative Republic where the people > Democratically select their representatives. They did teach us that were > were not a "democracy," meaning not a direct one. > As I said, I think some politicans and others use it wrong, as if we are > (or should be) a direct democracy. Most politicians get it wrong, many politicians know we're a Constitutional Representative Republic, yet they push the democracy fallacy. The only resemblance of a Republic and a Democracy is both vote in their leaders. Our forefathers put in an extra safety valve when they instituted the electoral college. ---