We should call things by their name, all "modern democracies, representative democracies, indirect democracies" are nothing else than demagogies from start to end.
Despite the number of USAians lurking to strike at any moment, I must admit that that whereas I wouldn't set a foot on the whole America continent the only place that escapes that exception is Canada. The fact that they don't want to be cowboys must be why, also the nice people I know from there.