Direct democracy has a lot of conditions that have to be met in order for it to work. Even in Switzerland, which is considered a good example of direct democrac

Direct democracy has a lot of conditions that have to be met in order for it to work. Even in Switzerland, which is considered a good example of direct democracy, it produces undemocratic results and practices. In California voters banned cable TV (prop 15) and gay marriages (prop 8) until it was ruled unconstitutional, and passed damaging tax props like proposition 13 which is still controversial. Switzerland meanwhile rejected woman's suffrage until 1971 on the federal level and 1991 in some cantons, only after being forced by the courts.