Democracies have been shown to be an unmitigated disaster throughout human history. That's why this country wasn't designed to operate that way.
> “Democracies have been shown to be an unmitigated disaster throughout human history.”
Yes, students of history going back centuries have known governments run by pure democracy end up in disaster which is why the American Founders modeled our government as a Republic.
The only places democracy worked well were found in Ancient Greece in city-states where the population was small and homogeneous. The Founders knew that democracy needed to be kept very local but the wider nation needed to be a Republic.
In a nutshell, when ambitious persons aiming for power can’t get their way within a democracy, they become belligerent, what we might call fascist. Then, within the construct of democracy the same ambitious persons will bribe, bully, assault, compromise, control all aspects of life outside elections to get their way. This leads to loss of freedom and loss of representation. Eventually a mob takes control and the democracy is run as a criminal enterprise like a mafia. The idea of democracy becomes a joke, a false emblem of something that sounds good but is rotten to the core.
If democracy is kept small and confined to local districts, it serves a purpose. Even if a mobster gains control of the local district, that mobster runs into the brick wall which is the Republic. Hence, the evolution of the local mobster is to grow power within a local jurisdiction such as cities like Chicago, NY, LA, Baltimore, etc, springing what Obama called the ‘Urban Archipelago’ which becomes in certain instances powerful enough to control entire states. Now we see such controlled states forming Voter Compacts which aim to do end runs around the Electoral college which is a construct to protect the Republic. In this context, democracy is a poison that must infect and kill the Republic which is in its way to controlling power.