“Which means there would be no protections against vote coercion or vote buying.” Yes, definite potential issues here. Again: I’m imagining a utopia (where the

“Which means there would be no protections against vote coercion or vote buying.” Yes, definite potential issues here. Again: I’m imagining a utopia (where there is no corruption of individual voters) “... incredibly boring and irrelevant for the vast majority” It’s clear that an overwhelming percentage of politics is intentionally uninteresting to the public. Parties battling through intentional bureaucratic stalling, thousands of hours put in to adding loopholes that are designed to be exploited for personal gain, reams and reams of information designed to hide a simple “I don’t know”, and so-on. If we truly were in a utopia, the choices left would be straightforward, manageable, and in less volume over time. “The mistake you're making is assuming that everyone would be equally interested in every single issue that came up for a public vote, and that is just simply not the case.” Kind of. Even if 70% vote in each issue, and it’s a different 70% each time, that’s a huge upgrade. “The mistake you're making is assuming that everyone would be equally interested in every single issue that came up for a public vote” I disagree with your take on it. It’s just as valid to say that the mistake you are making is assuming that people would be more jaded and hopeless than they are now.