Ok, since you're asking about it ...
partly Democratic? sure.
Local/state can be as 'democratic' as they wanna be. They have their own constitutions and laws, has nothing to do with the Federal government. The United States Federal Government though is a Representative Republic, where the members of Congress and the President are chosen by indirect democracy. And until the 17th Amendment, there was no election for US senators. State governors appointed them. So every action of the Federal government has ALWAYS had at least one level of separation from direct democracy, and usually more. Remember that even the President is not elected by the people. The people elect Electors, who then vote in the actual Presidential election.
The electors vote based on the popular vote and have never broken from that in the history of the Republic. True, it's on a state by state basis, but that's hardly not democracy. You would have a point if they actually had.
So basically you're saying Democracy is a part of our government, whether direct or indirect. And no, The United States is a democratic Republic, in that we democratically elect representatives, whether electors, Senators, or Representatives. What we were before the 17th amendment is up for debates, but doesn't really matter unless it's abolished. I'm sure many people will pick through my words and try to find something to contradict, while ignoring any ridiculous claims of their own side.
Polygraphs are not lie detecters. They can be fooled.
An Ex Boyfriend said that Ford since she's a psychologist helped a friend on how to take a polygraph. Strange that she said she doesn't know polygrpahs since it's her profession. And he said she never showed a fear of flying. And that Ford did credit card fraud.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ch...for-potential-polygraph-grassley-sounds-alarm.
Ford goes from crying then to acting normal smiling straight right after like it's no big deal. And she keeps talking in a high pitched innocent sounding tiny girl voice. And she's constantly trying to do that pretty girl pose and trying to look cute. And her crying croakyness sounds manufactured, she didn't get a tissue to clear her supposed flem that caused her supposed croakyness in her throat either, did it just magically go away. It seems like she's using emotion to manipulate. It sounds like a prepared speech. I'm not buying it.
And what did Kavanaugh do? I've never said I believed her or didn't, but I find it hilarious that you point out things she did that may her untrustworthy then he then turned around and did. It show how both sides are just making partisan attacks. Kavanaugh repeatedly got angry, cried, got angry again, then acted calm and smug, verbally sparred with Senators, cried some more, and had all of those weird verbal tics.
Yet again you're repeating things that have never be collaborated. An ex boyfriend said them and no proof was ever fine. Let me get this straight, Kavanaugh gets the benefit of the doubt when multiple women say something, and it's false accusations. A single ex can say something, and it's absolutely true and quotable as fact. Do you see the hypocrisy there? My ex told people all sorts of stuff about me one he was a few states away. It seems that people who are against false accusations only care when those false accusations don't benefit them.
To the Republican party and neoconservatives, if you're against false accusations, maybe you shouldn't repeat them constantly, and then expect everyone to believe you when you say there are some against you. We all make mistakes, true, but if you want na apology from Dr. Ford why not also push for one from Donald Trump and his surrogates who falsely accused Hilary Clinton of dying, she's still alive and fine, murdering 4 American soldiers in Benghazi, even if she was responsible there's a different between that and her physically murdering them, and for saying she killed Vince Foster. There is no proof she did those things, no collaboration, no investigation, and yet they are regularly repeated by the party and its surrogates as fact. For that matter apologize to Megyn Kelly for implying that asking hard questions means she's on her period, as I'm sure they didn't check her afterwards. All false accusations, and no apologies.
I woke up drunk at a senior drinking party with a dick in my mouth. I don't blame anyone even the f* that did that to me except only myself.
So we're supposed to just believe you? We need corroboration of this, and actual physical evidence that it happened.
Also your statement is paramount to if a woman or men is drunk, they deserved to be sexually assaulted or raped. I expected as much, but that doesn't make it anymore right. In fact, the kind of attitude you just demonstrated is a lot like the attitude sexual assault victims face from people in general.
"oh you had.a beer, so you were asking for it" is basically how your comment translates into reality.