And to your final point, I agree that reliable educational resources or perhaps some other solution would be needed to make sure whomever is doing the voting is as rational as they can be.
Understanding what a law does takes effort and time even if you are generally educated. Even if there are educational resources available plenty of people don’t have the time to inform themselves about every law.
Representative democracy is about giving that job of understanding laws to democratically elected officials and their staff.
In the absence of that, the people who spent full time engaging with laws are people who need to get a paycheck from somewhere else. Those can be lobbyists. They can also be journalists. Most journalists also get paid by corporate masters.
Understanding what a law does takes effort and time even if you are generally educated. Even if there are educational resources available plenty of people don’t have the time to inform themselves about every law.
Representative democracy is about giving that job of understanding laws to democratically elected officials and their staff.
In the absence of that, the people who spent full time engaging with laws are people who need to get a paycheck from somewhere else. Those can be lobbyists. They can also be journalists. Most journalists also get paid by corporate masters.