Read my post, the entire post, don’t cherry pick.
I was comparing a pure democracy to a republic.
The substance of what you said seems to be: “I would love to see a national referdum ability, where abortion, gay rights, whatever, could be voted on nationally and settled. That would be true democracy. The problem is that we are a republic and that kind of power is reserved to the states and to the Supreme Court with whatever collection of judges happen from day to day.”
To be clear: I don't like the concept of true democracy, or a pure one either.
More importantly, our founders didn't like, and didn't provide for a democracy.