Is the United States really a Democratic Country?
Not really. Technically it’s a republic, because we’ve got 50 states with 50 different individual legislatures & legal systems, all of it being tied together by a national government and a federal constitution that (more or less) puts limits on what the states and federal government can do. In a true democracy, we’d have a single government, and you wouldn’t see things like the lopsided electoral college numbers last week. You also probably wouldn’t see small backwater states like Alabama & Mississippi & North Dakota having as much pull in congress as they do. Somehow, however, it all pretty much works.
