Seeber on Direct Democracy

My colleague Jim Seeber and I have been in agreement way too often lately.  I would like to think he is coming around.  Surely it can't be me?  Anyway he makes an argument against direct democracy (and in favor of Madisonian republicanism) that is similar to my own.  I disagree on one point: I don't think that the problem with the initiative process is that the people are not well-informed.  It's rather than the process presents questions in isolation from one another.  Jim's example of proposition 13 in California is very good.  Putting a limit on property taxes sounded like a great idea.  But how do we fund education and other state priorities?  The initiative allowed the voters to consider the one thing without having to think about the other.  That leads to bad government.