When are people—especially those living in the United States—going to understand that the United States is not a democracy? It is a constitutional republic. Stop repeating that you want democracy. You already have something far more intentional—if you can keep it.

There is no such thing as a good democracy. Democracy is majority rule. It’s two wolves and a sheep voting on what’s for dinner. A republic is built on individual rights, rule of law, and limited government—not the mood of the mob.

This sloppy conflation didn’t start by accident. The propaganda push to rebrand the U.S. as a democracy took off in the early 20th century, around the time of Woodrow Wilson. The Committee on Public Information (CPI), established in 1917 under Wilson, aggressively used media and education to frame U.S. involvement in World War I as a fight to “make the world safe for democracy.” That phrase stuck.

It was never about preserving the republic. It was marketing.

Remember, it was Wilson who signed the Federal Reserve Act in 1913, handing over monetary control to a private banking cartel. And just a few years later, he imposed the most illegal of violations: the income tax. The IRS was born under his watch.

And if you don’t know anything about the Fed, this is a private bank that prints money out of air. It operates alongside every other central bank under the same model—fractional reserve lending. That means they loan out money they don’t have, backed by nothing but your future labor.

This causes inflation—a silent theft that debases your savings, your wages, your time. It’s an eternal cycle of debt slavery, where you’re taxed on what you earn, what you spend, and what you save—while your money loses value every year by design.

By the way—taxation is theft.

Democracy v.s. Republic is a false dichotomy. The strict definition of Democracy is a failed version of a Polity. Look up Polity.

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You’re trying to sound nuanced, but you’re missing the point. I’m not playing semantics—I’m pointing out a modern misconception that’s been pushed for over a century: people use the word democracy as if it means liberty, when in fact it means majority rule.

Yes, Aristotle distinguished between democracy (mob rule) and polity (constitutional rule by the many for the common good). But the United States was not founded as a polity either. It was founded as a constitutional republic, where individual rights are protected from both monarchs and mobs.

So no, it’s not a “false dichotomy.” It’s a correction.

When someone keeps calling the U.S. a democracy, they’re either misinformed or propagating a diluted version of what we were actually meant to be.

Read more than just the glossary. Start with the Federalist Papers.

And while you’re at it—define “common good” without falling into technocratic abstraction.

I don't think there are any good forms of government so it's largely a waste of time to argue semantics. My issue is how people use the word Democracy as if it's a panacea, when the word itself literally refers to a failed system of "self" rule. By the way, the "consent of the governed" and the formation of our republican form of government itself is founded on majority rule, this is the political theory of Jefferson and Madison, where they argue the seat of sovereignty and authority originates. In my opinion what we call government is no less than limited organized crime, and that's what it's always been no matter the form.

Exactly. That’s the point—democracy is not a virtue. The problem isn’t whether any form of government is perfect—none are. But people invoke “democracy” like it’s holy water, without ever questioning the structure behind it or what it’s being used to justify.

Yes, consent of the governed was foundational—but so was limiting power through law, through rights that don’t shift with popularity. Jefferson and Madison also warned about the dangers of consolidated power, central banks, and unchecked taxation.

So if we’re going to call out the organized crime for what it is, let’s be precise. Words matter—especially the ones hijacked to sell wars, suppress dissent, and inflate away the value of your labor.

That’s all I’m doing—pointing the spotlight at the myth, and where the switch was flipped.