A. The US isn't a Democracy, it's a Democratic Republic.
B. Following Citizens United, it's not really a Democratic Republic any longer either, it's a Plutocratic Republic with pretend democratic elements. It's money that controls the democratic narrative, there's really been no chance that any candidate without extreme investment could possibly take any major elected position in the US for a century or more, at least - and that was before the restrictions were removed.

If something's a 49/51 split, almost half of the people in the country don't get what they want. Even if the margin is larger, there's almost nothing that every single American will agree on.

I don't know if I ever saw a true democracy anywhere in this world. What would that be anyway? Whatever else we might say about it though, one thing seems certain: representative governement isn't democracy. Especially with lobbying involved. The entire enterprise gets skewed through the process of "representation" and not only on the level of the principle, since all that money is what actually gets things rolling.

No, no democracy around. There's certainly not one in my country, not in America either, not even in those mystified social democracies of the Scandinavian world. It's all play pretend, a show for the masses, panem et circenses, as always.

And you know what is the only thing that stops the current circus? If the bread runs out at one point. This is what has the potential to instill the change, possibly even destroy the so called democracy. And since only God knows what will happen instead of "democracy", I'm not really looking forward to it.
We're definitely living in interesting times... When the only thing left is hope, there's not much to hope for, right?