Which is why I look at it as a Plutocracy, a government run by money and the wealthy .... rather than a democracy, a government run by the people.

It's democratic (which is still a stretch) during an election.

But for the rest of the time, which is all the time, it's Plutocratic

We like to play with definitions and we easily are critical of other nations but we never want to admit what our own systems actually represent. We are so blinded by our own status that we never consider that we don't live in a democratic system ourselves.