How likely is it that a majority of a modern society would agree to something crazy like this, vs. just the ruling party of an indirect democracy? Unfortunately we don't have much statistical evidence, since there's basically only Switzerland having such a system nationwide, but at least we know that in the history of this republic since 1848 there hasn't been such an incident, while the Weimarer Republic, culturally close to a majority of Swiss and under an indirect democratic rule, managed to elect a ruling party that went haywire.