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It's important to note that Americans also do not directly elect the president (that's the Electoral College), and that most countries ~70 years into their democratic experiments were substantially less democratic than this.
Pretty much all the US leaders, whether political or economic, come from powerfully entrenched families, making the US a lineage-based feudal monarchy all but in name. This paragraph hits home:
It's important to note that the President is not the monarch of America. We have 3 separate but equal branches for this very purpose