What about the fact that most direct democracies, aside from making representative democracy look practical, all failed when confronted with the real world ? B

What about the fact that most direct democracies, aside from making representative democracy look practical, all failed when confronted with the real world ? Besides, having read the history of Athens, direct democracy can be described as mob rule, and there the problem of 51% of the population votes to kill off the 49% others was a very real problem. Every American probably can imagine the problems guilds created in medieval Europe, right ? Athens was a state where the equivalent of guilds could literally and legally decide to kill the competition (which they did, several times). Besides, let's not lose sight of reality here. America would be a near-theocracy if it was a direct democracy.