Conservatives are generally quick to point out that America is a republic, not a democracy. But what really is the difference, and are they even right?
...what Pritzker didn’t tell Congress: Illinois has suffered 42% more deaths per capita than America as a whole... Given that record so far, nobody should be telling Congress that Illinois provides the model for others to follow.
"We seek a free flow of information... we are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values." – John F. Kennedy, February 1962