Yes, you read that correctly. If you’re a Republican, you need to stop using the word democracy. That’s because the term doesn’t mean what you think it does.

A quick web search results in definition after definition of democracy. Unfortunately, these increasingly lengthy definitions are misleading at best. To understand the origins of the word democracy, we must look to ancient Greece. In the most basic sense, the Greek term dēmokratia (democracy) is the combination of two words: dêmos (people) and krátos (rule).

What did the ancient Greeks think of democracy? In the fifth century B.C., the famous philosopher Aristotle studied multiple Greek city-states to determine good and bad forms of government. Based on his extensive research, he presented six forms of government in his book “Politi

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