the idea of politicians as people who learn about all the impacts and nuances of legislation so we don't have to has been proven false for thousands of years.

the idea of politicians as people who learn about all the impacts and nuances of legislation so we don't have to has been proven false for thousands of years. the greeks knew that this representative democracy idea was crap. for an example of a functioning government please see the Venetian Republic (the birth place of proto-capitalism).