They do raise an important point: that no country other than Switzerland, has even gotten "remotely close" to implementing participative democracy. Basically you vote for someone, and then they do as they please. Not good. We should have a say on all matters.

Granted that some matters will bore us to death ("calling in your votes, today we are voting on the normalization of green pea sizes in Europe"), but at least if we could submit laws, change law proposals, and refuse laws, through a participative system like in Switzerland, life would be so much better.

On the other hand, this accepts that people are mature enough to make all decisions, when clearly they aren't (example: when the death penalty was abolished in France, a strong majority of the population was still in favour of it ... it took nearly 15 years for this trend to reverse, even though the law had already been passed => this is thus a good example of elected officials actually being more mature than the people).