Our representative democracy is failing because the people in charge aren't the ones most qualified to answer all these questions - because jack of all trade po

Our representative democracy is failing because the people in charge aren't the ones most qualified to answer all these questions - because jack of all trade politicians are tasked with deciding on all matters instead of experts in their respective fields. I'm simply arguing that we need to break out of the status quo, and throwing out suggestions on how to fix this. Direct democracy is one way to bring the power back to the people. A competency test to accompany it is a stricter one to alleviate the pitfalls of direct democracy. Even if we never adopt a competency test, I'd still argue that direct democracy would be a massive improvement to what we have now - if only because it'd bring the focus of the debate on the policy issues rather than on the scandals of politicians. It would totally obsolete are ridiculous two-party system. Like I said, the test would seek to be as objective as possible. Questions would not be of the subjective format: "Does increasing the minimum wage improve the economy?" Actually I don't even think there would be any questions specific to minimum wage. Better questions would pertain to indisputable fact-based questions (eg. what's going on in the middle east in regards to foreign policy questions about that topic). Or again we could just default to basic logic tests. These are all just implementation details though and secondary to the main point - which is to improve our policy-making.