They keep using that word. It doesn't mean what they think it means.
Either that, or they've changed the definition (shocker!) and haven't told anyone.
First of all, they wish it was a democracy, but that's 2 wolves and a sheep voting on what's for dinner.
Or, as President John Adams wrote: "“Remember Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes exhausts and murders itself. There never was a Democracy Yet, that did not commit suicide,” he wrote, before continuing, “It is in vain to Say that Democracy is less vain, less proud, less selfish, less ambitious or less avaricious than Aristocracy or Monarchy. It is not true in Fact and no where appears in history. Those Passions are the same in all Men under all forms of Simple Government, and when unchecked, produce the same Effects of Fraud Violence and Cruelty.”"