Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates. A View from the Diner's Club (1991)
We should stop going around babbling about how we're the greatest democracy on earth, when we're not even a democracy. We are a sort of militarised republic.
Americans are farcical when it comes to force majeure and money!Two things that they worship.You can't expect a democracy from a society like this. Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia (2013)