Source: American Thinker
Al Gore gives us 320 pages on his fears about the demise of American democracy. Relentlessly, Mr. Gore uses the word “democracy” to identify our polity, the term democracy cropping up again and again. A small sampler, if you will :

What’s gone wrong in our American democracy? The central premise of our American democracy. American democracy is now in danger. I had a sense of foreboding about our democracy. A new reality for the functioning of our democracy. Our democracy is in danger of being hollowed out. They feel disconnected from our democracy. Young Americans seem to feel that the jury is out on whether American democracy actually works or not … a conversation of Democracy … a decentralized process to reinvigorate democracy … etc etc.

Mr. Gore seems unsure that we understand America is a democracy. He goes to great lengths to pound the term democracy into as many sentences as he can as if we’re unfamiliar with the word. He is right to be so agitated.

Because we are not a democracy. We are a republic. We need only one fundamental diction to be clear in this distinction. ” … and to the republic for which it stands … ” Quoting Jessica Nappi in Capitalism Magazine (Jan 2001)

“Contrary to what so many said, including Al Gore, who claimed that

‘What is at stake here is the integrity of our democracy, making sure that the will of the people is expressed,’

– America is not a democracy. It is a constitutional republic, a system where the U.S. Constitution is the supreme law and citizens elect representatives to government.

“Democracy, by contrast, designates a system of government where the will of the majority rules, unrestricted by any law. The Founders of the United States of America went to great measures to ensure that our new nation was not a democracy.”

Incessantly hammering away at this term democracy, as if he were Pavlov and we but dogs, Al Gore reveals both his heart and his mind. He is not American. His every utterance and every persuasion is European socialist with considerable training in propaganda. Particularly the technique of the Big Lie. But his pointed lament about democracy also telegraphs that winds of change are upon us which must be the most fragile of zephyrs. He apparently knows something we do not yet see, as animals moan before an earthquake humans cannot detect in advance. Mr. Gore’s ululations on the demise of democracy would have no value if it were not actually so. If European socialism be robust inside the halls of our government and fashionable  among national power brokers, what would be the point to his complaint? The answer must be that the way Mr. Gore was raised to rule is vanishing. Else why complain? 
And as to the rest of it, all we need know is the technique of Turnspeak propaganda. Accuse your enemies of what you yourself are guilty of. When Mr. Gore accuses others of the politics of fear, it is clear what he is allied to is the root source of fear mongering. When he accuses others of damaging reason, we have all the evidence we need that reason has abandoned Mr. Gore. When Mr. Gore accuses in any direction, we are correct in knowing it is Mr. Gore and his kind who are guilty. In short, he and his kind are terrified that their way of rule is fading.
We are not a democracy, Mr. Gore. We are a republic.
You’ve told us everything in your willful ignorance of this simple fact.