Do you want a dictionary definition? Here’s the one from Google’s built-in dictionary.
de·moc·ra·cy
/dəˈmäkrəsē/
a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives.
You seem to think that you have some technical claim to correctness. You are in no sense correct, technical or otherwise. The reason that people probably get annoyed by your claim is that nobody likes a pedant, but a pedant who is not even correct by some pedantic argument is particularly irritating.
Moreover, nobody ever seems to subscribe to this weird definition where democracy is conflated with direct democracy except people trying to argue that the United States is not a democracy. I suspect motivated reasoning.
de·moc·ra·cy
/dəˈmäkrəsē/
a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives.
You seem to think that you have some technical claim to correctness. You are in no sense correct, technical or otherwise. The reason that people probably get annoyed by your claim is that nobody likes a pedant, but a pedant who is not even correct by some pedantic argument is particularly irritating.
Moreover, nobody ever seems to subscribe to this weird definition where democracy is conflated with direct democracy except people trying to argue that the United States is not a democracy. I suspect motivated reasoning.