Yes, direct democracy definitely doesn’t work. California’s still suffering from damage from propositions put up to the popular vote, and overall they’ve done far more bad than good. There’s a good reason countries go with democratic republics and not direct democracies, which is that we don’t have any way to have an educated and informed populace that will be up on the details of policy positions and their implications. This is unfortunate, and democratic republics have their own sets of problems, but they’re still less bad than asking the masses to decide on issues they’re not only uninformed about but which they don’t have the time, interest, or general capacity to understand.
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