Unfortunately, we're actually trending more towards direct democracy with an increasing number of referendums that often have terrible results. Representatives and their staff usually do a better job of writing bills.
Both referendums and elections are fundamentally broken and not particularly democratic to begin with. Deliberative citizens assemblies are the future of democracy. Randomly selected citizens, selected by stratified sampling for representativeness, are able to deliberate at a farm higher standard of discourse than elected officials. Such assemblies have performed extremely well so far in Ireland, France and Belgium
I don’t doubt the competency of representatives & staff when it comes to writing bills. I just doubt who they are writing the bills for…
Ah yes, the anti democracy scare. Switzerland is doing hundreds of referendums and is now closer to a thousand referendums than to 0 and they are doing better than the rest of Europe.