The vast majority of American citizens believe that America is a democracy. They believe this because that's what they were taught to believe in school. Its a hoax, a false narrative, brainwashing or however else you may want to describe the BIG LIE that America is a democracy.

America has always been a plutocratic oligarchy ruled by a small group of wealthy, white men, the elite, the 1% in modern terms. The "founding fathers" were wealthy white men. Why would they want to give the power and control of the government and the nation they founded to the masses of the people including farmers, tradesmen, workers, women and non-whites ? They didn't.

The elite created a system of government that would insure that the real power remained firmly under the control of the wealthy, white male elite. They then created the myth that the US was a democracy to keep the masses slaving in poverty to create more wealth for themselves.

American democracy isn't in danger of dying... it was stillborn.