Actually direct democracy is in fact mod rule . The folks that wrote & approved the Constitution knew this .
That is why the form of govt. that this country has is a representational republic with democratic traditions NOT a true direct democracy.
Your references to dope smoking ,Chaiman Mao, & the college kids killed at Tiananmen square merely show that you don’t quite know what you are talking about.
Nobody has ever claimed America is a "direct democracy where all 350 million people get a vote on everything". We claim America has democracy. Democracy is simply a Greek word that means "people rule". That's true in America, we the people are the ultimate source of authority and the politicians run things with the consent of the governed. America is an indirect democracy where the people rule by electing representative government. Always has been, always will be. Saying we have a form of democracy does not imply the people have absolute power, no more than saying England has a monarchy means they're saying it's an absolute monarchy where the Queen can do WHATEVER she wants. Simply having democracy by itself doesn't "cause" mob rule anymore than having a monarch by itself guarantees the King can be a tyrant and behead people at random. England in a monarchy, it's not an absolute democracy. If you claimed "England is a kingdom, NOT a monarchy" you'd be wrong.
The freepers who insist America is simply "a Republic, NOT a democracy" don't know what they're talking about. We have democracy in America, it's just not absolute. If the founders intended us to simply be "a Republic" with NO democracy, they would have set up the type of government they have in North Korea.