How can a democracy be a democracy if it denies its citizens the right to choose how to live their lives?

This is why we don't have a democracy in the US. The reason we don't have slavery in the US is because of the 13th amendment of the CONSTITUTION not democracy. Democracy is two wolves and a sheep getting together to vote on whats for dinner or should I say who. To me people confuse freedom with democracy. You can have democracy and no freedom if enough people vote to limit your freedom. This is the main reason the bill of rights was written. To limit the power of Government.