Pure democracy is mob rule.
It needs to die. In darkness and dispair.
Well, the U.S. model is a representative republic, a kind of indirect democracy.
The real question that needs to be asked is, what guides the “demos” (people) of the democracy.
If those people can safely say, more often than not, “No king but Jesus” (as the original devout settlers could) then it’s going to work okay.
I’m not sure the founders anticipated what was going to happen when Christian awareness died out. They didn’t realize that their own circumstances had selected for those who were empowered by faith. But, God has no grandchildren. Evangelism kept it going for awhile, but that too died out to nominal levels.
It’s going to need a revival of some kind. A spark so big that it can’t be ignored. Or else the USA will slouch into nothingness.
I’m also not sure anyone, even our dear Democrats, have ever called for “pure democracy.”
A fair and mandatory plebiscite, should it be possible, probably would still underscore the more conservative elements of America.
What Democrats are calling “democracy” is more like poll stuffing.