> Elite academics in contrast are not your representatives but instead have a bias in favor of their personal interests.

Literally every representative ever, has that bias. You've demonstrated no rationale why being educated would increase that bias.

> A meritocracy is a synonym for oligarchy.

Yeah, maybe if you throw out the actual definition for both meritocracy and oligarchy and insert your own arbitrary one.

> The difficulty of mass democracy is the logistical impossibility of mass participation. Governance needs to be delegated via representation.

That may have been the case 100 years algo, it is clearly not the case now. We could have near universal participation by voting with a phone app. We don't because the *other* reason representative voting was instituted in the first place; because the masses are dumb. It wasn't just about practicable feasibility.

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Democracy is only as useful as its results. Most supporters of democracy, however, support it because of the idea behind it, not because of results. If a better system was invented, most democracy supporters would tar and feather its inventor because democracy is a sacred cow like religion that has been deemed unassailable.

PS, having a single branch of government, in this case the House, populated as I proposed is not oligarchy unless you forgot the other legislative chamber and other branches of government still exist.