If Goverments Were Products...

 This post was made possible by people lying again about what Trump said.  What did he say? I don't know, because by this time I know I could go find out whatever he said and it would obviously not be what they said he said.  It doesn't really matter what he said. What matters is a fundamental error in thinking about government.

So, let's just say someone tells you- hey, just vote for me this one time and you'll never have to vote again. 

If this were a product, that someone would be selling you something- like maybe a washing machine or something- and he'd say, just buy this once.  It will just work and you won't have to meddle with this thing ever again.

But those who constantly talk about 'our Democracy' - if they were selling us a washing machine, wouldn't we be getting these mixed messages:

1: Bureaucrats/experts who will tell us how to do our laundry.

2: Constantly having to fix/meddle with the machine and/or just having to hand-wash because the machine isn't working again (and this will allegedly be a good thing because participation in this task that you just want done well with a minimum of attention or input on your part is somehow a wonderful thing).

3: Additionally, we must hear other people's voices about how to do the laundry and/or run the machine (which usually doesn't work- at least it doesn't work for our purposes).  The sort of people who absolutely fail at laundry nevertheless must be heard because everyone must have a voice- and it is very unkind to notice that they've turned all their white t-shirts pink.

Regardless of whether this analogy is functional or not, there's a key issue here- people don't like politics and most people have absolutely no skill whatsoever with that esoteric art of creating policy.  We are currently in an era of being jerked around by people skilled in emotional manipulation, and the resulting policy prescriptions tend to land in the arena of doing twice as much as whatever it was that was done before.  

This is probably because the current lunacy is still providing benefit to a few powerful people who find the situation lucrative.  

But in terms of real people, the idea of being able to stop paying attention to this governance thing sounds pretty awesome- much like if you have a good spouse competent at housework.  You are then able to go do whatever it is you are good at and not worry about the laundry.  

We would be thankful for a government we could ignore.  That would mean it was quietly doing good work and we could get on about our own work.