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Just wanted to point out that the two are not mutually exclusive and that the U.S. is indeed a democracy, though a representative democracy. Admittedly it may not feel like a democracy since it's the votes of the constituent states that really counts and not the votes of the individual citizens and thus the representative part is quite far removed. One shouldn't forget (not that you have) that the U.S. is essentially a union of [somewhat] sovereign states and thus the affair of electing a president is not the same as a single nation electing a president but more akin to several nations appointing a president for their union where they happen to somewhat take into account popular opinion in their individual states. Because of this, people may feel like they're not being represented, but they are, just not at the level they may want to. To further clarify, during countrywide elections, people are more treated like citizens of the individual states than citizens of a single unitary nation. So any comparison that compares the U.S. electoral systems as if it was a singular nation (which it's not) to the electoral systems of any unitary nation that is a representative democracy becomes kind of moot. Thus, for the U.S. to truly be a nation of equals, it may need to change so it prioritises the rights of citizens as if they were citizens of a single nation, instead of prioritising state/union rights as it more or less does now (in elections at least).