What problems do direct democracy have?

Easily corrupted, hard to gather everyone's opinion

Explanation:

Imagine gathering every single person in the united states and having them vote before we did anything. It's extremely ineffective, slow, and hard to control. Additionally, if their was a mass panic the people could be corrupted and forced into doing something bad (such as declaring war without rationally thinking)

in 1859, brown and 21 of his followers attacked and occupied the federal arsenal in harper's ferry. their goal was to capture supplies and use them to arm a slave rebellion. brown was captured during the raid and later hanged, but not before becoming an anti-slavery icon. abolitionist and insurrectionist

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