User blog comment:Reximus55/Government Series - Introduction/@comment-29118948-20131024053317

You seem to forget the fact that no they are not the same thing. Definitions can only go so far, and using a vaugue wikipedia page to justify you winning an arguement does not prove the point. The point LG is trying to prove here is that no, they are not the same. Squares and Rectangles. There are such things a Dictatorial republics, but no such thing as a dictatorial democracy. They are not the same. A Dictatorial Republic for example would be Nazi Germany, Hitler was LEGALLY ELECTED into power and just happened to get Dictatorial powers from the whole deal. While this is an election it is not a Democracy because no can be a Dictatorship in any form what so ever. There is no arguement against this because as soon as a Dictator is "elected" into power it becomes obvious that a nation stopped being a Democracy a long time ago.

So like it was said earlier Squares and Rectangles. No arguements against it, if you want to argue semantics or pointless things in something that is obviously going nowhere, please Run for congress or something, but lets just get with the fact that LG and his camp are correct by the very fact that No Democracy can ever truly elect a dicator because of the systems always in place to prevent it. When these systems are removed, a nation that says it is a "democratic nation" but elects a man like Hitler, or Putin, is truly not a democracy regardless of their previously good and well off intentions.