As pointed out by others, the US isn't a democracy and never has been. Having sa...

		loewenskind on Oct 5, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Wife-beating and slavery were once acceptable: How... As pointed out by others, the US isn't a democracy and never has been. Having said that, I don't think the problem would be being a democracy but rather consisting of 300 million citizens. I personally think that's far too big of a scale to have a reasonable government.