Reply #12: Call it a DEMOCRATIC representative republic [View All]

[Warpy]

and you'll get it right. We elect our leaders democratically, even though we're still burdened with the anachronism known as the electoral college. The President is the only leader we don't elect directly, although we do elect our state electors to (or we're supposed to, as opposed to the "winner take all" perversion we now have).

Right wingers, fascists, whatever you'd like to call them, have always mistrusted democracy, and the biggest threat to any democracy has always come from the right, with no exceptions.

Tell your friend that, and tell him democracy is one thing you will not allow him or any other fascist to destroy.