In other words people are too ignorant to know what's good for them and we must trust our smart government officials to make decisions for us. A typical line of anti-democratic ideology.
No. It is not likely the average person will have time to go through all the nuances of a bill to properly evaluate it and make an informed decision. You are obviously passionate about the big name issues but there are hundreds, if not thousands, of boring bills and policy adjustments that the common person is not going to research to make an informed decision. Direct democracy has been tried and it largely failed.
It hasn't been tried! Not to my knowledge. And the closest approximations have been quite good successes too. For example the Swiss system, in Liby under Gadaffi there was a system where every law had to be ratified by the population. Apparently it was very successful. Lastly the system of workers councils and anarchist rule in revolutionary Spain was very successful.
