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Let's dissect this common claim "we live in a bad society because the People aren't educated/engaged/caring/democratic enough". First of all, the public has little to no power over our leaders. They organize us. They tell us what to think and do. We grumble and obey.
Given that we the people have no capacity or attention to self-organize to "hold power to account", it is absurd to expect us to do so, or diagnose that as the problem. Whoever did have that capacity would simply become the new leadership. Focus on the leadership.
The quagmire in Afganistan, and every other mess in our society, comes directly from a lack of vision and capacity in our leaders. They lie to us about it not because we "let" them, but because they are too cowardly and weak to openly say what they are doing and why.
The correct diagnosis of the situation is not the need for the impossibility of "holding leaders to account". It is that our leaders need to stop being stupid, cowardly, and weak. They need to be competent, visionary, and strong. We can help with this.
Big irony is that the democratic focus on "accountability" actually takes the pressure off the leadership, and lets them decay, by drawing attention to the "failure" of the people to discipline them, instead of to how we might help them build better institutions of governance.
A discourse that focused on responsibility and governing institutions instead of "accountability" and "the people just don't care enough", would be paying attention to, and attempting to solve, the actual problem, which is good government.
A discourse that focuses on the responsibility and inevitable failure of the powerless to somehow adversarially hold the powerful to account is completely evil and counterproductive. We will not solve our problems this way.
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