Any time someone says the US is a democracy, or a liberal democracy, they need to be slapped. Our Founders loathed Democracies. Article IV, Section 4 of the US Constitution specifically outlaws direct democracies.
The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.
Any time someone says the US is a democracy, or a liberal democracy, they need to be slapped. Our Founders loathed Democracies. Article IV, Section 4 of the US Constitution specifically outlaws direct democracies.