A republic with an unneeded prefix.

Well that or a government that holds rigged elections but pretends to be democratic... ala East Germany.

Republics protect minorities.  Democracies don't.  In a Democracy if 50.1% of the country wants something... it gets it no matter what.

If this isn't the case.... it's  republic.

There is no inbetween.  It's purely analog.

The USA is a Democratic Republic.

Incidentally, so is North Korea.

However, it is not a democracy. No country with a formalised constitution can be called a democracy.

http://lexrex.com/enlightened/AmericanIdeal/aspects/demrep.html

The definitions have changed over time to "a country with elections" and "a country with no monarch" in popular usage, but that is not what they mean.

Have some sympathy, its a tough job market for people who graduated with womens studies degrees. 

A lot of these people seem to have gotten political science degrees. Who the fuck wants to even talk to a poli sci major, let alone hire one?

Also:

Heartbreaking.

aw now the cops can go back to beating them for no god given reason. you know with the biased media known as fox news who would have just turned there cameras off when the beatings started.

o yea i see the justice in that now how about you?

all is well in the universe. no chances of hell freezing over right?

Poli Sci is usually a pre-law degree if you don't have a pre-law program, or at least that's how it works in my school. Also Public Administration

Now International Relations kids like me are screwed :/

How tragic, to think that she will have to do something worthwhile with her life!

The true tragedy is the amount of people who went 100k into debt getting  a design degree. 

Not to be rude, but the "occupy" groups seem to be (at least publicly) mostly made up of "young adults" with entitlement issues and a very poor understanding of how the world/economy works. Their message seems to be a very diverse mess primarily because most of the movement doesn’t seem to have enough understanding to create a coherent message. Certainly, there is consistency across the group that their problems are the fault of corporations, but there doesn’t seem to be any explanation why it is these companies fault that individuals took on tens of thousands of dollars in debt to get an education they chose even though they were (probably) told by countless people that their degree would be worthless in the real world.

While I could be wrong, when I see politicians on the left trying to latch onto this group in hopes that it will become the tea-party of the left I think that their support of this will backfire on them. The reason for this is that, while they may not support the movement itself, a lot of the principles of the tea-party are fairly popular with independent voters and moderate supporters of both the democrats and republicans. In contrast, from what I have seen the "occupy" group’s overall message seems to run counter to what most independent voters or moderate supporters of the democrats and republicans are looking for. While it is not "sexy" a (smart) republican can run a fairly moderate capaign and defeat these democrats by using their support for this group to make them look extreme ...

A tragedy period about the situation is to get high school students to go immediately off to college, graduate with no work experience, and a large loan, and then somehow expect to find work.  This is pitched in the name of the "million dollar myth":

Ideologically, people opposed to the Occupy movemenet are in the Tea Party.  They are angry at governments, not the market.  As for going down there to support the current banking and financial markets, that received bailouts, who do you know who would do this, create an pro-investment banker or hedge fund manager cheerleader group?