america isn't a democracy and never was though if you choose to read this i suspect you'll encounter thoughts and ideas you won't like or accept no matter how real they are. this writer seems to take a side in the 'discussion' whereas i accuse all of 'our' political machinery of bias and stupidity;

Democracy is hard work and requires a lot from those who participate in it. It requires people to respect those with different views from theirs and people who don’t look like them. It asks citizens to be able to sift through large amounts of information and process the good from the bad, the true from the false. It requires thoughtfulness, discipline and logic.

Unfortunately, evolution did not favor the exercise of these qualities in the context of a modern mass democracy. Citing reams of psychological research, findings that by now have become more or less familiar, Rosenberg makes his case that human beings don’t think straight. Biases of various kinds skew our brains at the most fundamental level. For example, racism is easily triggered unconsciously in whites by a picture of a black man wearing a hoodie. We discount evidence when it doesn’t square up with our goals while we embrace information that confirms our biases. Sometimes hearing we’re wrong makes us double down. And so on and so forth.........https://www.theburningplatform.com/2019/09/10/the-shocking-paper-predicting-the-end-of-democracy/