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Yeah, no. This is something you need to work through. Earnestly. I want you to read American history and understand how the country has never been a democracy.
Realize that the US was an apartheid regime until the 1960s. That's 200 years of racial apartheid. You're gonna call that a democracy?
If you think WW2 was the end of Democracy, and that was literally 20 years before the end of apartheid, your definition of democracy is white supremacist.
You do realize that an apartheid state literally is based on denying democracy to entire populations right? Sure white supremacists get to vote. That's not a democracy. That's rule by an occupying force.
Yeah, you're just being ahistorical.
The US didn't vote for apartheid. They were an apartheid regime run by minoritarian patriarchal white supremacists to start with. They were not governed by "the people". Then, the property owning slave owning patriarchal white supremacists seceded from the monarchy and maintained the apartheid regime, the oppression of women, and the genocide of the inhabitants of the land.
NONE of that was democratic. None of that was put to vote. And even if it had been put to vote only the oppressors were allowed to vote.
Demos - the people
The people, the vast majority of people were oppressed and not participants in government.
You can argue semantics and say that because the land owning slave owning patriarchal white supremacists were voting among themselves on the best ways to commit genocide, mass murder, mass rape, mass torture, all for their own minority profits that this was a "democracy". But, that's not what the word means. Democracy is voting. Democracy is self-governance of the people by the people.
America has never been that.