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Liberal Democracy is not democracy. whatever civil religion myths you still believe about how government works are misleading you here.
the united states hasn't been a democracy since your choice of Citizens' United or Bush v Gore, and it certainly wasn't a democracy before the voting rights act. Whether it was a democracy during the ~30 years between those things is debatable.
It was always a democracy*
*if among the privileged few actually allowed to vote which has always excluded huge numbers of people intentionally