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viraptor parent
Why is NK called Democratic People's Republic if it's not? The marketing copy can say whatever it needs to.

sethops1
And America isn't a democracy, it's a Republic.
OneDeuxTriSeiGo
This is the most infuriatingly incorrect statement.

America is a democracy AND it's a republic AND a bunch of other stuff.

The full description is that America is a Federal Constitutional Representative Democratic Republic.

rbanffy
Technically “America” is a continent. The country is called “United States of America”. ;-)

And yes, saying it’s not a democracy infuriates me as well, because it’s being used to justify a whole lot of undemocratic shenanigans.

OneDeuxTriSeiGo
Lol I almost went for that pedantry. However technically America is not a continent (under most definitions of continent) but North and South America are. :P
rbanffy
America would then be the whole land mass. Or something like that.
SllX
Unless you grew up in a place that taught a six-continent model instead of a seven-continent model and it was NA/SA consolidated instead of Europe and Asia into Eurasia.

Also: continents are bullshit.

Also also: America is the United States of America in the English-speaking world.

yndoendo
When the Presided of the USA is no longer bound by the Constitution, written law, it is no longer.
thyristan
Funnily enough, it isn't even a constitutional monarchy then, it regresses beyond that to an absolute monarchy.
rbanffy
The fact remains the country, as defined by its laws, should be a democracy.

Its people will have a lot of stuff to fix in a couple years.

Biganon
Oh my god I cannot stand reading this anymore, why do so many people parrot that like it's some gotcha phrase.

"A cat is not a pet, it's a feline."

Things can be multiple things at once. The US are a republic and a democracy. Republic = not a kingdom, democracy = power to the people. Close but not exact synonyms.

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