Question

Do we still have form of direct democracy in our country today?

Answer 1

Which contry is your country? If you mean the United States, of course. When you turn 18, if you aren't yet, you will go down to your polling station every year in November, sometimes also in the spring, and vote on any number of issues, from who will be your mayor or city councilman, to whether the state sales tax will go up or down, whether a local judge will keep his job or be fired, to who will represent you in your state legislature, in Congress, in the Senate, and in the Electoral College. Depending on the state, you may have up to a dozen ballot initiatives and referenda there, too, where you will be asked whether your state should spend $x billion on high-speed rail or building jails, whether college tuition should go up or down, whether the government should grant business licenses to small bakers or not, et cetera and so forth.

In fact, it is not unlikely that in the United States we have long gone past the ideal balance point of direct versus representative democracy. Far too many nitpicky little decisions are turned over to the voters, who can't possibly have the time and energy to research them all and make sensible balanced decisions. As a consequence in some places -- California is notoriously this way -- you get a hodgepodge of inconsistent and strange policies, many of which are the result of soundbite-driven emotional gamesmanship sales operations, essentially a reality-TV version of the ideal of sober and responsible self-government.