If one expects that politicians, even democratically (assuming one believes this to be the best process available) elected, are not to be fully trusted even when they are chosen based on their friendliness to a cause one believes in, voting and campaigning becomes simply not enough.
I don’t think that the high class view of what democracy happens to be in the West was at any time that it’s just about having an election every four years.
If one expects that politicians, even democratically (assuming one believes this to be the best process available) elected, are not to be fully trusted even when they are chosen based on their friendliness to a cause one believes in, voting and campaigning becomes simply not enough.
I don’t think that the high class view of what democracy happens to be in the West was at any time that it’s just about having an election every four years.