Yeah… the Oregon thing is stupid… which is why it’s never going to get passed…

And no, America isn’t a true democracy. If you really want to be technical about it, it’s actually more like a republic. The difference between true democracy and America’s brand of democracy: Representative Government… thus we have a Republic. Unfortunately we have some fucked up representatives out there, and too few good ones.

There I go with my random factoid of the day. One of my old history teachers went off on a tangent one day about how everyone says the US is a Democracy when in reality it’s a Republic. True democracy would require every single individual person of which there are millions to have a vote on every single miniscule issue, which is, fankly, impossible to do. Therefore we have representatives to vote for us… blah blah blah principle of representative democracy… power resides with the people who delegate to representatives… therefore a republic. Anyway, point being, he said that the next time we hear someone refer to the US as a democracy we can feel super smart and say “But ahh, it is really a republic.” So woohoo! Go me…