In our modern age, it really doesn’t. We have the infrastructure to make direct democracy possible, we just lack the political will to take responsibility for our communities and vote and be informed as much as that would require. As humans, not as a nation in particular.

Billionaires can control the media, websites, and most content. They shape democracy in their own image. Seems similar to the time when Kings ruled from huge palaces and had peasants do the dirty work n