Even without reading the article I can agree, The USA like the UK and various other western countries has only a pretense at democracy.
The best that can be said is that they are a representative democracy in some cases, a first past the post system in others, but the USA with it's misnomered "Electoral college" is the worst of them all.
To call a system democratic where you vote to instruct a voter or collection of voters how to vote on your behalf, but they do not have to take your advice and can vote how they please regardless of the popular vote is to put it mildly fucking insane.
The only thing more insane is that the voters themselves do not object to this system and willingly participate in it each and every four years.