The United States is a Constitutional Republic (Dear CNN a clue is in our country's name).
There are democratically elected officials at the national, state, county and city level but we are not Democracy. In order to protect minority views our Founding Fathers went to great lengths to prevent mob rule. The most serious threat to this original vision was the amendment removing state legislatures appointing Senators and institution of popular elected Senators.
It's a bad look for people that fundamentally know we as a nation are a Constitutional Republic but stumble explaining it to an agenda driven POS "journalist".
Over 2,000 years ago some of the greatest minds understood that strict Democracy was ill conceived.
- Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme form of liberty.
Plato
- "It has been observed by an honorable gentleman, that a pure democracy, if it were practicable, would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved, that no position in politics is more false than this. The ancient democracies, in which the people themselves deliberated, never possessed one feature of good government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity."
Alexander Hamilton, Speech to Congress, June 21, 1788
Among the latter, under pretence of governing they have divided their nations into two classes, wolves and sheep.”
Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Edward Carrington, January 16, 1787
