Direct democracy, while certainly better than todays kakistocracy, is not a solution to the problem of governmental legitimacy based on something other than vio

Direct democracy, while certainly better than todays kakistocracy, is not a solution to the problem of governmental legitimacy based on something other than violence. Consider direct democracy involving the citizens of China and the US. Is there any way that such a system could avoid a tyrannical outcome? The only way to have meaningful consent amongst the governed is for the political unit to be significantly homogenized, and for voting to not really matter all that much. This is why secessionism and the devolution of sovereignty to smaller political units is a moral imperative. Voting should be used to ratify already existing consensus. This is also why multiculturalism is so deeply wounding to political legitimacy, and requires increasingly totalitarian measures to maintain.