I never said the country at its founding lived up to it's principle of Democracy. "The country was founded on a select group of men making decisions by electing other men to act on their behalf."  (Don't you mean it was founded "by" a select group of men?) 
For the time, the notion that the power to govern resides in more of the general populace was literally revolutionary. 
As E.B White said, "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. 
Given your penchant to level an insult  ("..as usual, you don’t know what you’re talking about.) it's not surprising that you offer another chance to self-stimulate your itching ego.