Democracy is ruling by the people. And the government has to give the people easy way to express itself. We shouldn't have to "mobilize" and "invest ourselves" heavily to change something in this new connected world. Electronic voting is one great thing, Petition through internet is another great thing if it really had an impact.

If you're suggesting we put the metric system up for a vote, I think I know how that would go.

It's supposed to be, but instead its representative democracy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representative_democracy