White House Receives Flood Of Applications After Its Disrupt Announcement

The vast majority must inevitably defer to trusted intermediaries to summarize, weigh arguments and state positions. Historically, these would be the press and popular community and national public figures.

The problem today is that those intermediaries are busy leveraging that trust for personal financial gain, feeling no obligation to perform the actual duty being entrusted to them. [2]

To remotely "pay attention" to the breadth of political discourse absent trustworthy filters and intermediaries is beyond a full time job.

Not to mention that it's generally a first-class ticket to becoming disaffected, as one discovers that the issues worth talking about are largely ignored and in many cases there are simply no alternative positions being offered by our political parties.

[1] A person with no training in economics simply cannot make an educated position on any but trivial economic policy short of actually studying economics. And Dunning-Kruger doesn't paint an optimistic picture of anyones ability to fairly weight the various arguments while they're still coming up to speed on these topics in a highly polarized, highly politicized environment.

And to 'pay attention' one must not only do this with economics, but criminal justice, property rights, the health care industry, international politics, business operation, lobbying rules and restrictions, etc.