Purely direct democracy does not work. Representative democracy is needed because you can't possibly design a system where everyone has to be bothered to assess

Purely direct democracy does not work. Representative democracy is needed because you can't possibly design a system where everyone has to be bothered to assess every new law proposal. Most of the bills are about subjects people know nothing about. It takes time to research the subject, gather expert opinion and then emit a well grounded vote. That's why you need to assign a group of people full-time to the task of assessing new bills, aka representative democracy. In direct democracy, you either have populist votes or non-participation. It is inescapable. The fact that the current system is broken is no excuse to move to one that is flawed from the start. We now have the technological means for an evolution of representative democracy: Liquid Democracy, or delegative democracy. It's representative democracy with "continuous elections". It might work (better).