Yes, you do understand completely.
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what's for dinner. Democracy is mob rule.
Voltaire, the great French philosopher and writer "distrusted democracy, which he saw as propagating the idiocy of the masses." Fifteen years after Voltaire died, the Reign of Terror that followed the French Revolution proved him right.
Democracy (mob rule) was what caused Black Men to get lynched in the Democrat Party controlled South.
Our United States of America's Founding Fathers intentionally rejected democracy because of this. We are a Constitutional Republic comprised of representatives who, wisely we hope, vote on our behalf just to temper the negative effects of mob rule.
Your observation of "FR is not a democracy" is an actually a plus.
Used to be. Until 1920. When we passed the 19th Amendment.
Now we're a democracy.
The Constitution works some of the time. But soon it'll be discarded.