How is a direct democracy and a representative democracy alike?

Answer 1

It's not. Democracy is a system of government owned and controlled by the will of the majority of the governed. The will of the people of a democracy would be the supreme law of their land. Unless the people officially choose to endow "representatives" with their rightful power to choose their destiny, any true democracy would necessarily be a direct democracy, because the true will of the majority of the people could only be acertained from a publicly owned, votable forum system capable of perpetually establishing truth about every issue, gradually and peacefully, in real time. There has never been a full-fledged democracy on Earth, for two main reasons. First, humanity only recently developed the computative, interactive and connective technology to define the true will of a population, a task that couldn't be done by horseback. And secondly, the small group (now the CFR) who enjoyed wielding Our power for generations has made a science of convincing us that We hold the power, in order to prevent losing their illegal reign over us and all we produce and own. But, it's obvious to all that our majority never voted for our current conditions of corrupt government, perpetual war, war profiteering, hunger, starvation, officially acceptable genocide, widening cultural divides, ever-widening gap between the rich and poor or ecological devastation of proportions that now threaten our extinction ~ myseries that none of us ever wanted ~ that could only benefit a psychologically unstable few. Countries which have been deceptively mislabeled as democracies by that tiny minority have equally tiny "degrees" or "aspects" of democracy: the vote. Some call them demockery, because they make a mockery of the very concept of democracy. It's a generational global deception of enormous magnitude. Having ballot boxes does not make a country a democracy. And, negative reality is a natural product of demockery. Direct democracy would be a political system which is owned and "directly" controlled by those it governs. Those affected by and/or with special knowledge of a particular public issue would raise the issue, then participate in the formulation of the most popular solution to that issue. Since the vast majority of people want peace and prosperity, that is what a direct democracy would produce. "Representative democracy" is a either just a deceptive misnomer or the name of a form of government yet to exist. America is a representative republic: Not a democracy by definition, as you were taught in public school. So, a representative democracy would require that each representative have a local votable forum system in which only his or her constituents could participate.

Answer 2

People have a say in the government, take part in the law-making process, vote for proposals, and reach decisions on a majority basis.

Answer 3

Direct democracy and indirect democracy are both designed to allow the general public to influence government by voting.

Answer 4

They both allow the citizens to vote.