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It was never a democracy because it is a constitutional republic.
Please learn what words actually mean instead of just spouting off shit you’ve seen other people say.
A constitutional republic is a form of representative democracy.
Splitting hairs over the difference between a democracy and a democratic-republic misses the point. China, Russia, even North Korea, are all constitutional republics. Do you want to live in a country with a dictatorship like that? I don't.
Uh, I've got some bad news for you ...
Oppose it. For most of my life the United States was not a dictatorship. It's still not quite, yet. But MAGA is certainly trying.
Regardless, the distinction between democracy and a republic conservatives so often make to discredit democracy is one that slyly promotes dictatorship.
*sign* It was never a direct democracy. That is but one sort of democracy.
Much like there is "water", which as a pure chemical is H2O - but most of the water we encounter isn't actually pure water.
That implies our elected officials represent the will of their electorate. They do not. They represent the will of their corporate owners, "campaign donors". It is a plutocracy.