This is the whole purpose for establishing a Republic and not a Democracy. By having the people elect elites/experts/professionals they can therefor make those decisions and learn how everything works. Determining who is qualified by disseminating the issues is quite a feat in itself but addressing issues directly as in making law and determining the actual impact directly created from your decision, is quite the undertaking. Elections are fundamentally flawed in this regard, since non experts need to decide who is best and the line that determines the winner is majority vote, causing involved politicians to need to gear their efforts not just to prove qualifications but to convince as many people as they can. In the end, it is trust that the people will choose someone capable and that the majority can't be deceived. In the case they are or something changes we have means to remove elected officials from office. It's a messy mash up of checks and balances that allow our flawed system to work and it has thus been determined to be the best option for government. More educated than Democracy and less abusive than Dictatorship, in exchange for a level of cumbersome.
Before the PS3 everyone was nice to me :(
