A Republic Is A Kind Of Democracy

Is America a republic, a democracy, or a democratic republic?  Some people use these words almost interchangeably and other people use them as if they refer to different political systems.  America is actually all three of these things.  A democratic republic is a type of republic, and a republic is a kind of democracy.  It is not particularly difficult to realize this.  No, calling a country's governing structure a republic does not make it so.  As always, to know the truth, someone must look past words to concepts, without making assumptions, while also recognizing logical necessities.

In a republic, citizens (some of them at minimum) vote on representatives, who in turn make decisions that impact the citizenry.  This is the republic of the United States of America: there is voting on who becomes a political official, such as a senator or the president, and after that, the citizen class has no direct bearing on political events orchestrated by those in office until the next election time.  It might be said by some people that this is not a democracy, but it is only not a pure/absolute democracy, the worst form of this abomination, where the majority directly and fully dictates everything about how a country is run.

Consensus, feelings, and preference are irrelevant to dictating or revealing truth (other than that one is experiencing certain feelings or preferences).  Thus, pure democracy is even more opposed to truth because of its inherently relativistic or emotionalistic approach to matters that are by necessity never determined by relativistic attitudes or emotion.  Some people recognize at the least that democracy is dangerous since it is as volatile as the majority and can be expressed through whatever stupidity or cruelty 51% or more of a community wish, when its pragmatically explosiveness is meaningless next to how it is antithetical to truth and the fixed, intrinsic nature of reason in which all truth is grounded.

A republic is at most still not this absolute and this thorough of a democracy.  There is always a democratic element to any republic that features elections of any kind, however limited, however sporadic, and however .  Democracies, in contrast, do not need to involve a group of elected representatives in order to be democracies.  A republic without elections would just be a form of oligarchy, where the representatives are the ruling class, as if oligarchy cannot be democratic.  A true republic as distinguished from a general oligarchy always involves elected representation.

As such, republic by default is just a subset of democracy in each of its manifestations.  A republic cannot be rational or good as a political framework because it is democracy, and democracy is inherently irrationalistic, for the idea that the majority or consensus in any way determines or reveals the truth is one that is false by necessity.  Reason grounds truth.  Logical axioms and other necessary truths, whatever moral obligations exist, and even lesser things like whatever scientific laws/phenomena really exist behind the veil of perception are not made true or made knowable by whims or agreement.  Anyone at all who supports democracy is by nature in opposition to the very nature of truth itself.