You’re not crazy. The rhetorical goal post for why the US is a democracy, and what exactly constitutes ‘Not a democracy’, Has been getting shifted the entire time, as the US blows past it.

Like. Half the time they’re not even making an actual argument. people on here do this just every single day. I don’t need to know the hoity-toity 7 to 15 word quip that makes absolutely no sense but fills the place where a logical argument should be....