Occupy Wall Street Protests not working? What do you think?

[Onibaka]

Jexy said:

Onibaka said:
Of course USA is a Democracy.

USA is a Democratic Republic. Accept it.

It is a contemporaneous concept. A democracy is not necessarely the same as it was in classic greece.

And the Republic part is also not a perfect replica of Roman Republic. I may be wrong but there are probably influences of Enlightenment (the same ideals that culminated in French Revolution) on Constitution and posterior laws.

True democracies have everyone voting on everything, not elected officials, hence the republic part of our country.  True democracies can't run past a few hundred people, because everyone is wanting their own things... oh right, like congress and the senate do now :p  Hence the non-passing and blame-gaming of the current failed bi-partisan effort to reduce the debt.

Yes, true democracies are imposible. But we have an "contemporary democracy" which accepts representants. Also the definition of "government" and "citizen" changed over time.