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Who is it that mocks politicians while handing them the entire job of thinking?

"You can't trust any politician." The people who say this most often are often the same people who don't know who is running in the next election or how their own town spends its budget. Democracy was supposed to be a system for deciding things together. In reality, we hand over all the tiring parts, like looking things up, talking things through, and listening to people who disagree, to politicians. Then, if we don't like the result, we just complain. It is like a customer who never helps in the kitchen but has plenty to say about the taste. We can't stop because giving up the work of thinking is easy, and when things go wrong, we get to say it wasn't our fault. Our attraction to strong leaders and simple slogans is the other side of that same comfort. Of course, people who work or study every day don't have time to research every policy. So the problem is not only personal laziness. It is also a system that squeezes citizen participation into a single vote every few years. One answer is to make it official for ordinary citizens, chosen by lottery, to hear from experts, take their time discussing an issue, and put forward real proposals. Another is to let young people experience, at school and in their neighborhoods, discussions that actually change the outcome. A democracy where we stop handing everything over only starts to move when we change the very shape of how people take part.

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