Is the United States a representative democracy or a theocratic oligarchy disguised as one?

It is really neither one. It is becoming more and more a secular humanist socialist ruled state. It has more big government, of which our founding fathers were afraid and they tried to install measures to prevent it.

They worked for over 200 years and then came the democrat's socialist spending programs that were designed to take the wealth of the rich and give it to the poor, making everyone equal, though it presently is the top 10% of the people paying over 50% of the taxes. People keep voting in the socialists because they have gotten to where they can get more from "Uncle Sugar" than they can by working and they are the 4th generation getting handouts so they don't know any better. The government class is the ruling autocratic oligarchy, but they are a godless lot (Separation of church and state, which the founding fathers never intended except to keep the state out of the church.

They didn't want there to be a state church like the Church of England that was started by King ... more.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.