One of my problems with representative democracy is that there is never a candidate that ticks all my boxes. I.e. an actual representative. If I vote for someon

One of my problems with representative democracy is that there is never a candidate that ticks all my boxes. I.e. an actual representative. If I vote for someone to keep my digital liberties, they want to ban nuclear power instead, or whatever. It's all a tradeoff, and I don't think it's good that the tradeoff needs to happen so early in the process of representating me. I like Switzerland (where I currently live,) because they have direct voting on topics, mixed with electing representatives. There's a filter so the people don't have to vote on everything, but for the big questions, there's already a system in place to ask the people. That must have sucked 100 years ago, when communication was more limited, but today, I think every nation should move to it. It also keeps the people engaged (voting on 3-4 topics every quarter,) and not just something that happens every four years. Maybe that would have saved Sweden from the extreme sides of (nationalist) politics, and from banning investments into nuclear for 40 years before ripping that up. Mind you the nuclear disinvestment was based on a (non-binding) ballot vote, but my problem is no one dared challenge it, or have a process to re-ballot the question, in 40 years. Even in light of new climate information.