In Brief I'm Talking About Direct Democracy - Tumblr Posts

Given your "grand leader" comment I'm not sure you got what I'm advocating for right. I'm certainly not advocating for unelected officials, I'm advocating for no (or only where strictly necessary) officials. Instead of electing (presumably knowledgeable) officials who vote on legislation or sign executive orders, the people vote on legislation and executive orders directly, hopefully taking into account the proposals of (presumably knowledgeable) commentators. The important difference is this is a minimal-trust system, which avoids putting power in the hands of people who won't answer to you for years (as you said yourself, socdems aren't all that socialist when actually in government) (technically permanent elections or widespread enough revolutionary sentiment would achieve a lot of the same goal).

This absolutely doesn't mean you have to know everyone or come to an agreement on everything, just as you don't currently do so when electing officials. You just vote on whether you want to increase funding to hospitals (probably yes), or military aid to genocidal foreign powers (probably no), or you might do some kind of ranked choice vote to decide on a screw shape to standardise. Are most people qualified to make an informed decision on their own concerning that last one especially? Probably not. Can they consult opinions of experts and vote accordingly without handing anyone the right to screw them over? I think so.