Democracy in any of its forms was not the objective either when the Constitution was drafted, or in virtually any of the government actions up to about the time FDR tried to apply the “National Recovery Act” on the then-moribund United States of America, reeling from the Great Depression.
Supposed to be a popular program, the National Recovery Act, patterned on the populist activitism of Mussolini’s Fascist Italy, trampled on a number of the provisions of the Constitution, and the principle of “democracy” was repudiated temporarily, when it was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. But not for long, as FDR and his “Brain Trust” rammed through most of the provisions covered by the National Recovery Act piecemeal, all the while making the already Great Depression even more depressed. The US was in a deeper depression in 1938 than it was in 1933, and only the outbreak of hostilities in Europe and elsewhere spurred the revival of America’s industrial might.
I believe the dems promote the idea of “democracy” to give democrats credance. Our government is most correctly discribed as a republican form of governance. A representitive republic, republican if you will.