[@Penny] Yes, that is the point of it. It's not a trick or an error that's exactly how it was designed. 

Also if I need to bring up the hundreds of people that use the word "were a deomcracy" as an argument including one I had on the forum...that was completely flawed in understanding we aren't one. I will...but biting as the comment was. Yes...which is why I said it. Because the counter argument had been previous made to the person I responded to.