I am going to watch it when I get home. I am curious...as you said, we don’t have a democracy.
People use “Democracy” as shorthand for “Republic” in the same way some people use “Liberal” as shorthand for “Leftist”.
That is correct. Keep in mind, though, that both republics and "true" democracies both suffer from this issue he is talking about in this video, so just pretend he is talking about republics as well.
In America, where a democratic constitution has already been established, the communists must make the common cause with the party which will turn this constitution against the bourgeoisie and use it in the interests of the proletariat — that is, with the agrarian National Reformers.Looks like the hard left is most fond of using “democracy” as a pseudonym for “republic”.
— The Principles of Communism
Words do mean things so that excuse is a lame cop out.
Nowhere in the Constitution or the Declaration is the word Democracy used.
That we are a democracy is a leftist meme used repeatedly to prove why we have gone wrong and why it needs to be corrected by full blown socialism of one brand or another.