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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Trump did not win the majority of American voters so no - he did not win in a democracy.  Happy?  [/quote]

+1. We are a republic. Trump won because we are NOT a democracy.  God I wish you people took civics. [/quote]

Took it in 7th grade. I don't remember all that stuff 30+ years later. Most people don't unless they have a strong interest in a particular subject.[/quote]

And this is how we end. Up with a third rate thin skinned reality TV star as president.  Low information,  and proud of ignorance voters.

If my 13 year old can grasp this stuff, you can too.

Bless your hearts.   [/quote]

My 13 year old is grasping it just fine. I grasped it just fine at 13 years old, too. I just didn't remember the difference between a democracy and a republic 35 years ago. But I voted for Hillary anyway.[/quote]

But you're wrong anyway. Or at least you're not entirely right and I'm not entirely wrong. The language is open to interpretation. I'm glad I could teach you something today that you thought you already knew! Here's just one link.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/05/13/is-the-united-states-of-america-a-republic-or-a-democracy/?utm_term=.91ee84f5d021

[i]"The United States is not a direct democracy, in the sense of a country in which laws (and other government decisions) are made predominantly by majority vote. Some lawmaking is done this way, on the state and local levels, but it’s only a tiny fraction of all lawmaking. But we are a representative democracy, which is a form of democracy."

[/i][i]"But there is no basis for saying that the United States is somehow “not a democracy, but a republic.” “Democracy” and “republic” aren’t just words that a speaker can arbitrarily define to mean something (e.g., defining democracy as “a form of government in which all laws are made directly by the people”). They are terms that have been given meaning by English speakers more broadly. And both today and in the Framing era, “democracy” has been generally understood to include representative democracy as well as direct democracy."
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