[Eastbound]

"“Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy that did not commit suicide.”
John Adams"

That's why they created a Representative Republic . . . NOT a democracy. Therefore, the premise is wrong if it is referring to America.

[phs3]

I think this is where most of these writings come from..

Democracy in America

[ProfessorGage]

100% correct. Except.... We’ve been moving toward a direct democracy ever since. Radical changes in how we elect the pres., DIRECT election of senators, and most importantly, the wholesale rape, mutilation, murder, destruction, and denigration of the enumeration.