>because I don't have the expertise or the time to make informed decisions about everything my government is currently doing for me. I don't think our current

>because I don't have the expertise or the time to make informed decisions about everything my government is currently doing for me. I don't think our current career politician representatives do either. >Direct democracy will likely devolve into a reign of demagogues imho. That's more or less what we already have, I think. An unpopular solution is some sort of qualification based voting, possibly per issue, say having subject matter expert vote on particular bills within their domain. But there's no realistic way of competence based voting without disenfranchising the vast majority of voters.