Some of us do...some of us do not...
That's why we are a representative republic and not apure democracy.... A measure to save us from ourselves.
I hope you guys know that I was advocating self-government in that statement, not deriding it. That was a paraphrase of Reagan, who was paraphrasing Jefferson. This idea goes back to the ancient Greeks or Romans. It is, by far, the best method of government developed so far (or according to Churchill, the worst, except for all the others.).