Comment by ktosobcy

That's what I said yes, by it's very definition, no current contemporary government is a democracy.

I'm not necessarily picky with every word we use informaly. As you noticed with green washing, which here was colloquially used as "bullshit to pretend to be virtuous because manipulating public opinion open some hope to control its behavior".

But when it comes to the official fundamental statement of what the government ruling people is pretending to be, I do expect something more aligned with the first degree interpretation of the words.

Republic means there is no State secret.

Democracy means that citizen rules and decides the laws.

I have the firm conviction that asking better than newspeak level nomenclature is not asking for perfection. That just mere basic honesty.

Consenting that utter lies to serve as base political denomination with the excuse that nothing is perfect is just lazily opening doors to broader harsher lies for those willing to gain carte blanche on exercising political power with a flow of void sentences.