Excellent video, I hadn't seen that.

Predictably, the argument devolves into one about direct democracy vs. representative democracy, and that's really not the issue at all.

The issue is that the current system consistently acts contrary to the will of the people.

To quote the Princeton study from your video:

  The preferences of the average American appear to have only a
  minuscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon
  public policy.