America was designed intentionally as an incremental improvement on the British model, as was the british on the roman – and a multi house republic consisting of property owners ( business people ). Democracy was a dirty word.
The ‘Democracy’ myth was created by the left as a means of seizing power, and using it to provide an incremental path to world socialism, then communism.
‘Democracy is just communism by slower means’.
https://www.quora.com/Why-is-America-considered-to-be-a-democracy-when-it-is-clearly-a-plutocracy