While the US system is completely ossified and unresponsive to popular demands, proposals to make voting on everything both ignore the power dynamics at play, v

While the US system is completely ossified and unresponsive to popular demands, proposals to make voting on everything both ignore the power dynamics at play, voter fatigue, and history. In the 1789 French revolution, they did try having votes to try to get more and more government officials elected after the overthrow of the ancien regime, but the votes were so frequent that people stopped showing up and the elections became barely legitimate. Other than that, software elections are prime for tampering, and even if they are determined to be secure by experts, suddenly the mechanisms of democracy are opaque to the masses and become untrustworthy. Making votes less understandable de-legitimizes them. Lastly, the reason for the ossification of American democracy is due to the fundamental oligarchical design of the 1787 constitution that explicitly saw mass politics as mob rule and feared it. They designed the branches of government as a series of baffles to counter popular sway over policy making, hence a Presidency that requires a vote so large they are responsible to no one in particular (though originally they were elected indirectly by electors), a Senate that was indirectly elected and designed to void popular proposals coming from the house, and a supreme court with lifetime terms that are totally unelected. As an aside, their theory of the separation of powers was that the elites would be mostly in agreement on fundamental issues and fight over control of the branches of government. They were in large part wrong, factions of opposing interests developed and managed to capture the entire government in cycles (so we are living in an edge failure case of the original design). This system, plus the domination of the economy by wealthy interests, first the slave owning planter class and later the capitalist corporate class, prevents and subverts popular democracy at every turn except where the public's preferences coincide with the real rulers. Voting is simply a preference expressed to the rulers. It doesn't in any way carry a mechanism for enforcement and enactment and is highly susceptible to all kinds of manipulation, especially when voters are individualized and do not deliberate in organizations and vote in blocks. If you want your voice heard, take to the streets and/or join an independent party that include non-electoral tactics such as strikes.