But we're no longer a Republic, haven't been one for years. This nation is at best a National Democracy
While I look at it as more of some sort of hybrid that nature would abhor like a jackalope. There is a direct conflict between the two forms of governance that gives us this explosion of laws and regulations to try to return to the supposed ideals of this country.
Which leads me to wonder what we look like to people in other parts of the world. When we go about touting our Constitutional form of government, when for all practical purposes, the United States itself has not been living up to the promise of that founding document for a long time. What our government in practice is evolving into is some sort of neo-fascist monstrosity.