035.366 - 2016 project and appreciation

every day in 2016, write a sentence or a paragraph or a poem that inspires or appreciates

the idea of democracy

imagine!  a polity in which none of the citizens has to work!  all citizens gather in a public arena or stadium every day to be informed and to vote on all the minutia that a great polity requires:  budgets, schedules, promotions, awards, contracts, where to place the next stoplight, which sewers to replace, whence the polity will get its water, how the polity will raise funds for its expenditures, what law needs to be adjusted to make conditions more equitable, what streets will be repaired next, and probably hundreds of trivial items I haven't thought of.  no wonder no one can do any other work, not even raising children!  they have no time!   vacations are a silly idea.  so all the work is done by contractors, foreigners brought in specifically to do the work no citizen has time to do, including soldiering, policing, all the maintenances, garbage disposal, merchanting, nannying, teaching, engineering, architecture, banking, stock brokering, grocerying, restauranting, and at least a hundred more than I've thought of.  now imagine the economy that supports a democracy:  for no reason we know of, people for miles around this polity pour money into it so the citizens can live in fine houses when the governing of the day is done, so children of the citizens can be raised and educated, so the citizens can fight their wars and build their dams and roads and streets and sewer systems, and so forth.  yes, democracy is an amazing idea!