The US is ranked as a 'Flawed Democracy', what needs to change?

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JackHandy said:

It's not a flawed democracy, it's a flawed republic. But even so, it's the flaws that make it what it is and allow it to change and grow and bend its way along. So I don't think anything needs to change. There has always been periods of social and political upheaval in the US. We're in one right now. Soon, it'll be over and things will carry on as usual.

You’re conflating two separate things. The US is called a Republic because its head of state isn’t a Monarch. It’s also a democracy because its government is from the people.

For example, countries like Sweden, the UK, Denmark are not republics because their heads of state are monarchs, while countries like Germany, France, and the US are republics because their heads of state are not monarchs. At the same time, all six of these countries are democracies.