Representative Democracy alone cannot pacify the citizens.

For the representative is not only limited in rationality and information, but will always be guided by self interest.

The representative will always do what he thinks needs to be done, but can he know what actually needs to be done?

What we need is a direct democracy to complement the representative system.

This way, the body politic will have peace at all times, and it will flourish.

The needs of the people can only be known, and met at the market place.

Imagine what happens when the citizens go first to a middle man in the name of a politician?

Prices will always be distorted, goods and services will be hoarded, and generally, the freedom of the citizen will be cut.

How does the politician get this data? Who collects it for him? When does he process and comprehend this data?

This process is too long and inaccurate!

Direct democracy is where each individual takes himself to the market, and through this, has a say in the day to day running of government.

Everyday is voting day, and the government is playing a very different role from its current one.

Citizens decide on what needs to be done, they contribute towards creating it and hold officers directly accountable.

There lies the problem.
We treat the campaign period as the time for putting ideas out there so that the voter can make his choice based on the ideologies that most appealed to him.
Problem is, some voters will invest more time in researching and probing the potential leadership (nyinyi hapa wazua), while others will attend a rally get entertained by a few stories and dances and vote. Both the informed vote and the uninformed vote (unfortunately) carry the same weight.

@For Sport - That's exactly the problem.

@tycho - Do you see the government pushing for participation. I doubt it would want that much pressure and accountability.

And of course some vitendawili.