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>>11068825
>It's a republic yes, but we pretend it's a democracy most of the time, my point still stand
No, we don't. The only people who "pretend" we are a democracy (they actually believe that lie) are simply uneducated or lied to or are liars themselves. If you watched the video, it's explained accurately. This new shift in language happened in order to subvert the ideals of our constitutional republic, and encourage a democracy which is easily controlled and easily falls into dictatorship. More details in the video (which is more relevant today than ever).

To give an example, why do you think "we" (as the US but more specifically its government) want to inject "democracy" into states of the Middle East? It is because democracies are easily controlled, and the US military-industrial complex wants that control. Arabs in the Middle East don't hate the US presence in their home nation because they hate "freedom" or "democracy" (as emphasized in US propaganda), they hate living under the authoritarian regime that is democracy.

Don't pretend you weren't completely wrong to protect your ego by saying "my point still stands", it doesn't stand. How can democracy be "hardly alive" when there never was a democracy to begin with? You have no point. No one "pretends" we have live in a democracy as stated above. Don't fret though, this is a very, very common mistake (somehow? our country is literally referred to directly as a republic in the pledge of allegiance which grade school students recite everyday, how do people not know this? they must not pay attention at all) made these days so you are not alone unfortunately.