“My experience is that most of the people who get really upset about the current leadership of our nations tend to be folks who haven’t spent much time either as an activist or as someone working for a candidate. What happens instead is they immerse themselves in on-line news and commentary.”
OK so this sounds like you are surprised. That most people upset haven’t done something a relatively small % of the public have done.
And I am unsure why you think the point has any value. Political candidates represent a tiny % of the population. If each one had hundreds of people working with them. It would still be a tiny % of society…
Add to that that the vast majority of society actually has a life they need to work earn raise families. Honestly the largest percentage of society just dose not have the time or energy to protest or take part in politics.
They still have a right to complain that the people they are paying to do the job. To do it to a standard or in a way they don’t like.
Have you ever milked a cow. Do you still feel annoyed and complain when someone sells you off milk.
It’s also just anecdotal, and in my equally-anecdotal experience, wrong. I’ve worked on political and activism campaigns, but I absolutely whine about leaders who suck. So does everyone else I’ve worked with.
The issue is that government is a lot more complicated and contentious than milking a cow. It fundamentally can’t work if people don’t educate themselves, get involved, and work at it.
Not everyone will find the time or energy to do this, but it is much more important and productive than wasting time arguing about whether we should or shouldn’t vote for Biden. If you don’t have the time yourself, perhaps you can find the time to support or encourage other like-minded people to do so.
I think a diary farmer. Managing the health wellbeing vs cost profit. Dealing with economic and environmental rules.
Would indicate the biggest difference is. The cows do not get to express a choice.
Where as in society the means of production and the customer all have input.
Of course people don’t participate when you turn politics into a full time job. They already have a full time job.
Especially when activists turn it into a “No True Scottsman” situation. Just more, more, more.