The United States considers itself a democracy today and we do elect morons to vote for us. So it is the same in both.

All the democracies of the past have failed and so will all the ones in the future. It is mob rule and more than half the people can take the rights away from the other half of the people. In a republic, everyone has the same rights and their rights are protected. In a republic you won't get benefits from the government, because the government won't have much power.

"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not."
Thomas Jefferson