Isn’t this why democracy fails? It is exhausting. It is work designed for a paid shill. It is a burden placed on the governed by the government to distance everyone from participating.
It is the shade preceding the darkness that democracy dies in.
It is the shade preceding the darkness that democracy dies in.
Rules, protocol and regs are obviously necessary to some extent, but it feels like (in Europe, at least) the map has been confused with the terrain. Overly burdensome protocols are fuel for inaction and hand-wringing and, not very surprisingly, private interests have learnt to take advantage of this (e.g. lawfare)
It is tempting to adopt a "drain the swamp" mentality, but we should remember that swamps are ecosystems too.
The steady hand becomes the ruler.