"What if a large, diverse group of people who are busy living their lives could act collectively in a way that's as effective as a well-funded group of professi

"What if a large, diverse group of people who are busy living their lives could act collectively in a way that's as effective as a well-funded group of professional lobbyists?" You're right in the most technical sense, in that all of human social reality comes back to "us". But blaming complacency, rather than the exponentially more difficult problem "we" have to solve, is completely bizarre.