We live in a republic, not a democracy.
"A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction." -- Fisher Ames "The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness, which the...ignorant believe to be liberty." -- Fisher Ames "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote." -- Benjamin Franklin"Democracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy, such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes and no man's life or property or reputation or liberty will be secure, and every one of these will soon mould itself into a system of subordination of all the moral virtues and intellectual abilities, all the powers of wealth, beauty, wit and science, to the wanton pleasures, the capricious will, and the execrable cruelty of one or a very few." -- John Adams, An Essay on Man's Lust for Power, 1763
Of course. I would hope that you you knew what I meant. I was using the word "democracy" in it's broadest sense. Americans do not vote on every issue. We elect officials who then vote on every issue.