Maybe consider that Switzerland is one of the best if not the best country in the world because people can choose what they want it to be.
Not politicians, experts and administrators.
And yes, most people are limited in knowledge and vision. Look no further than Brexit, where the average UK citizen couldn't comprehend the complexity of the situation or the question, yet voted. The most asked question on Google the day after the vote was what is the EU... And it took years to begin to untangle the mess.
And again, look at Switzerland and their human rights travesty of not allowing half their population to vote because the existing voters said no.
A direct democracy could decide tomorrow that we wanted to fuck China sideways with nukes because it's funny and based all because a tiktok went viral.
Sorry, but that's just a racist dogwhistle. Switzerland has four main ethnic groups, and has had multiple rounds of migration (e.g. after the Yugoslav wars). Look at their various national sporting teams. Just because you can't look past people's skin colour that doesn't make them "homogeneous".
You need an educated and engaged populace that understands their civic duties.
> educated and engaged populace that understands their civic duties.
This describes a homogeneous group. An environment that cultivates this unilaterally (relative to an arbitrary standard), is by definition more homogeneous than one that does not. It's a politics, standard of living, and equality economics dogwhistle that has nothing to do with race.
No, it doesn't. People being educated doesn't make them homogeneous.