How many here think that they themselves should not be allowed to vote? While Omnivoruous is terrified of DD I am sure that he doesn't think that we should be terrified of him voting.
That's a gross misrepresentation of the objections to your proposal.
There are advantages to operating a sizable country or state as a democratic republic rather than as a direct democracy. One of the advantages is that I don't have to be an expert on every conceivable thing on earth, and that I can spend most of my time doing the things I am particularly good at, which does not include deciding on a zoning issue on some street in this town that I never visit or whether a stop light ought to be installed on a street I'm not likely to visit.
In fact there are some problems for which I value the opinions of the experts far more than I value the opinion of the mob. I don't trust most people's ability to make themselves experts. I am a little more trusting of their ability to recognize someone else's expertise when they see it.
No, I don't want to have people in Tennessee vote on whether they can hog all the water from the Chattahoochee river before it flows into Georgia. I want some smart people representing each state to sit down and work out a plan. I don't want to have to quit my day job to weigh in on things.
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846)
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. Galileo Galilei
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. Frederick Douglass