>Just like I hire a person to fix my car, or hire a person to fly the planes I sometimes travel on, we hire people to handle running the country for us. This c

>Just like I hire a person to fix my car, or hire a person to fly the planes I sometimes travel on, we hire people to handle running the country for us. This could easily still be done with referendum voting, by allowing people to appoint SMEs as proxies for relevant issues. >That said, people in the US are so busy that they don't have any time at all to even make informed decisions Neither does congress, because most of their time is spent begging for money and selling legislation. So much so that they regularly pass bills that was neither authored by a congressman nor read by many of those who voted for it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Read_the_Bills_Act https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Read_the_Bills_Act