But these same folks fail to realize that once they open the floodgates to pure democracy, there is little that can be done when emotionally overwrought voters decide to have their way, never mind justice. Indeed, many folks defend democracy only when things go their way. Instead they screamed fraud and deception. They accused their opponents of hoodwinking the majority of voters. The reason is that no one is really a democrat when it comes to deciding right from wrong.
Democracy is a matter of power.
And power should only be used for limited purposes in a free society. But that would mean that a whole lot of measures government now carries out routinely would have to be chucked, and few have the courage to advocate that.