Why has it been suggested that athenian direct democracy was a brilliant failure?

Some people were always criticizing Athenian democracy for various reasons. Here we will see the ancient and modern views about democratic failure:

a) Direct democracy gives all citizens the power to vote but ancient thinkers thought that all citizens could not bear the responsibility comes with the power to rule.

b) Modern thinkers consider it a total failure because the citizens were too inclusive and does not include women, slaves, and foreigners.

the berlin blockade was an international crisis that arose from an attempt by the soviet union, in 1948–49, to force the western allied powers (the united states, the united kingdom, and france) to abandon their post-world war ii jurisdictions in west berlin. in march 1948 the allied powers decided to unite their different occupation zones of germany into a single economic unit. in protest, the soviet representative withdrew from the allied control council. coincident with the introduction of a new deutsche mark in west berlin (as throughout west germany), which the soviets regarded as a violation of agreements with the allies, the soviet occupation forces in eastern germany began a blockade of all rail, road, and water communications between berlin and the west. on june 24 the soviets announced that the four-power administration of berlin had ceased and that the allies no longer had any rights there.

your answer will be b. improving roads, bridges, and other infrastructure. hope i !