Answered your own question, there. Who would you trust?
Democrats?
Republicans?
Who?
Every State's political machines are overrun with insiders who will end up controlling the process. The people who are out here in the cheap seats, longing for some semblance of real freedom generally will be Alinsky'd by both sides of the great machine, just as they are in local and national media now.
It isn't the mechanism, it is the people using it who are the problem now, and will continue to be the problem, no matter what mechanism is used.
Free? Hardly.
And what's worst, most people would be clamoring to escape anything approaching real freedom--which is how we got where we are.
Especially city folks, who are the first to cry out for some law or regulation, who, when they think they have enough (or the ones they have are totally ineffective) will come to impose their majority will on the rest of us, even though they don't have a clue about living past the end of the sidewalk.
I wouldn’t trust democrats or republicans.
Those words don’t really mean anything, they are lies.
There is exactly two groups of people in this country.
The ruling class and the ruled.
I would trust a free people to safeguard and conserve its freedom.
If a free people does not safeguard and conserve its freedom, then that people will not be free, and this is a moot discussion.
If we cannot trust ourselves to use the tool that our constitution provides us to control our government, then we are doomed.
That is all.