I don't know, it's of course very popular to bash on politicians, no one likes them. Me neither. But at least in my country and city, if decisions were made by

I don't know, it's of course very popular to bash on politicians, no one likes them. Me neither. But at least in my country and city, if decisions were made by the average citizen, we would be living as in the 80s. Every time they remove a parking spot to make room for a bike lane or a wider sidewalk, people complain (even if in the long term, many end up seeing the benefits). Maybe it depends on the country, but at least in my place the average citizen is very, very reactionary. They want everything as it always was. Politicians, with all their failures (we have plenty of corrupt ones here), tend to have more long-term thinking that Joe Sixpack.