What democracy? The country was set up to make people think it was a democracy. James Madison was protecting the opulent minority from the beginning of the country. It's never changed.
You're always sooo close. democracy failed when a "democrat" won in the 90s who passed all the classist, racist, corp authoritarian legislation that reagen couldn't get away with. Resulting in more non violent people in cages then China has total prisoners with less than 1/3 pop.