The more you work the less you participate in self government.
It is why citizens no longer have a say in their government, why when you’re working an 70/80 hour week in the Silicon Valley, you don’t have time to audit the county recorder and make sure the voting machines aren’t rigged, Or you don’t even take the time to vote in person, you waste your vote by using an absentee ballot.
No, American’s need to have time to rein in this out of control government that got that way because we no longer have the luxury of time to participate in our own government.
Well...part of me agrees with you. As a woman, and wife, I quit working (formally) 20+ years ago....and decided to support my husband full time (and have a life.) I also ran for public office and was elected, (Comm College Board 4 years) and have considered part of my “job” studying politics/gov’t and trying to help others stay informed. Lotta good it has done....can we say I am frustrated? Yes. Taking a year off (mostly) from all that. I also felt it just wasn’t worth contributing to soc sec, spending the gas and clothes money for work, plus I had other things I’d rather do than support the government (I worked in HR in high tech - and it started feeling like a gov’t job.)