Which is why the United States was not founded as a democracy, but rather as a republic.
For the edification of those in learning mode, the United States of America allows its citizens to participate in democratic elections but holds those elected to the Rule of Law meaning a republic.
A shorter encapsulation is ‘Democracy for the People, a Republic for the People’s government’.
Therefore, the United States is a Republic, as long as the People can keep it as such.
It's now a matter either of restoring the Republic or sliding into tyranny. Unfortunately the ground for the latter has been much better prepared: direct election of Senators, the income tax, the Federal Reserve, the wrongly decided Wickard v. Filburn and Reynolds v. Sims, the whole expansion of Federal regulatory power the first of those fueled, the destruction of liberty on the plea of suppressing drug use -- the militarization of the police, on-knock warrants, and civil forfeiture laws -- the destruction of liberty on the plea of protecting us from terrorist -- the Patriot Act, the NSA's domestic surveillance programs, the rubber-stamp secret FISA court,.... And that's just the warm-up for Obama's abuses of power, which at least the SCOTUS has occasionally rebuked on 9-0 decisions.