There is one fundamental problem to address: in order to take good decisions it is necessary to have good knowledge of what you are deciding on, involving different angles (legal, financial, technical, etc.). We live in complex societies based on complex relations, most people are just unfit to decide as they know little or nothing about most matters politicians decide on.
Plus, as the populist wave demonstrates, when social media are used to tickle people’s lower instincts and promote fear and hate, it is very possible to create majorities of people led by the irrational who would vote based on propaganda slogans with a tribal attitude.
A solution that would make it more likely to take good decisions would be to make the value of the votes vary based on the expertise of people (I.e. the vote of a professor of Economics would count much more on a vote about economy than the vote of someone who know nothing about it).
You also need to consider that a good government should be enabled to take a direction and work in that direction for enough time, accepting that some outcomes won’t turn that well (you sacrifice something in exchange of something else). A good political action is an action that looks at the next 5 years, or even better at the next 20 years. If all decisions get squashed to the narrow horizon of the present, and all decisions can be easily changed/revoked, or you allow multiple decisions on one topic that are not harmonised between them, you create chaos.
We need more people who know how the system work and how to more effectively use it and improve it rather than more citizens enabled to make choices on stuff they know nothing about.
A good democracy of the future is a democracy in which if you want to vote on a specific issue you must not be completely ignorant of that issue. We need a democracy of competence, only this can stop the increasingly barbaric manipulation of the masses based on ignorant propaganda and fake news.
We need a system that helps humanity evolve and progress more efficiently. We need to avoid to fall into chaos, immersed in a media orgy where people are pushed to vote things they know little or nothing about.
It’s the best minds, those who are competent, those who have vision, those who are responsible and have good will that should lead the way. Anyone should have the right to have their voice heard but their vote should count only for what they know about. They are free to learn, if they really care.
This is in my view the change that should happen in democracy. If we need to decide how to change a complex procedure in justice courts, I want the vote of people who work in justice courts, lawyers, and judges, to weight more than mine since I am ignorant about it.
What I am describing should be technically possible for the first time in history but it would take many decades imo as it adds layers of complexity that we are not ready yet to adopt (it requires an invidividual profile where your skills and expertises are listed/proven, and this data would be connected to the voting system, and an AI governing it).
