Your positions highlight how much the left actually hates America and the principles on which this country was founded. The Founders never envisioned or wanted a true democracy because someone would always be shafted, for many of the reasons Herdman has already pointed out. In fact, they spoke extensively about the type of system you both propose and rejected them outright and even put safeguards in place to prevent those things from happening. You are advocating for a system of government that is in direct opposition of what this country was intended to be. The fact is, popular vote would open the door to the exact thing you claim to fear in Trump, a dictator that could sway the uninformed masses through propaganda and rhetoric. If that is something you actually oppose, you should never advocate for a pure democracy.