[philman_36]

This fixation on wording is only important if word games are important and, it is quite clear, that word games are at the root of your objection to my using the phrase "democratic republic."

Yet there you are playing word games yourself and baffling others with BS instead of dazzling them with brilliance, all the while waxing eloquent with profuse verbiage of no consequence.

BTW...Isn't that called 'projection'?
You know, claiming someone is guilty of doing the very thing you're doing.

[nathanbedford]

It was you who opened this discussion, not me. You object to my use of the phrase yet you never defend your position with anything but absurd analogy and, now, ad hominem attack. You top it all off by accusing me of "projection."