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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic#United_States

Failure is the right word for indirect democracy, which is also known as representative democracy.

Every terrible President in the past fifty years hasn't been elected by popular vote, representative democracies enable gerrymandering, and direct democracy has been shown repeatedly to have none of these problems. See: Switzerland.

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A) posting the United States paragraph of the republic wiki article has to be the laziest argument I've seen in a long while.

B) Switzerland is very much a representative democracy still.