> Just like I hire a person to fix my car, or hire a > person to fly the planes I sometimes travel on, we > hire people to handle running the country for

> Just like I hire a person to fix my car, or hire a > person to fly the planes I sometimes travel on, we > hire people to handle running the country for us. It's > an abstraction of labor. I really don't want to be > bothered with every little tiny decision about budget > or foreign policy. Except you're not getting a choice about any details, large or small. In actuality it is entirely unclear what you are getting to choose at all apart from which person you imagine, might, against hope, history and evidence maybe do something you agree with. I am proposing that fundamental policy matters: taxation, foreign wars, climate change accords, trade deals be dealt with directly. The smaller details can be handled by experts in order to free up our time to watch football games, catch up on soap operas and paint our nails.