No. A direct democracy is a government for the people by the people while a dictator runs a tyrannical government where the citizens have no rights and are subservient to the leader.
I believe the correct term to fill in the blank would be chronic. Lamont caring for his aging father, who suffers from dementia is a chronic stressor. This type of stress is a response to an emotional pressure that is being suffered for a very long time where the person sees that he has no control over it. From the situation, it is clear that Lamont has no choice over it, he has to take of his father no matter what the situation is. With this in the long run,, he would feel a chronic stress and it would affect or contribute to the development of illnesses such as heart or cardiovascular disorders.
In the context of Levinson’s theory on seasons that a person goes through, all of these underlying factors contribute to Keisha’s "life structure".
Psychologist Daniel Levinson built up a complete theory of grown-up advancement, alluded to as the Seasons of Life hypothesis, which distinguished stages and development that happen well into the grown-up years.
His theory is included succession like stages. Each stage is formed by an occasion or activity that leads into the following stage.
It was meant to warn Americans against potential peril in the wake of the 1890 census which coldly stated that there was no longer unexplored wilderness in America (sans Alaska), that there was no longer a contiguous frontier, there was also not an official statement saying that the frontier had been closed because it was merely hearsay.