The Founding Fathers of the United States knew this and did their best to assure that the United States would NEVER become a democracy, but rather a Constitutional Republic. Sadly, satan became in charge rather quickly.
Why Socrates hated democracy:
https://youtu.be/fLJBzhcSWTk
EmmaLee assembled these quotes:
Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.
John Adams
Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their death.
James Madison
It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity.
Alexander Hamilton
Between a balanced republic and a democracy, the difference is like that between order and chaos.
John Marshall
The experience of all former ages had shown that of all human governments, democracy was the most unstable, fluctuating and short-lived.
John Quincy Adams
Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
Ambrose Bierce
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
Winston Churchill
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
Oscar Wilde
Government is best which governs least.
Thomas Paine
The only foundation for . . . a republic is to be laid in Religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty, and liberty is the object and life of all republican governments.
Benjamin Rush
The problem is that democracy is not freedom. Democracy is simply majoritarianism, which is inherently incompatible with real freedom. Our founding fathers clearly understood this.
Ron Paul