I find it amusing how you just don't get it. Your narrow worldview is typical of everyone who comes from oppressive regimes and doesn't understand citizenship. The writer Svetlana Alexievich wrote a lot about this kind of alienation.
> Economy and how you are doing are what matters in the day to day life of people.
Yeah, but "economy and how you are doing" is inseparable from freedom and democracy.
You need the rule of the law and respect for private property to ensure a functional economy. You need transparency, freedom of information and speech, freedom of assembly and political representation to demand responsible government from authorities.
> The average Joe does not care about politics
That's how Putin screws up the average Ilich, and the Castros screw up the average Juan. See the connection?
> Economy and how you are doing are what matters in the day to day life of people.
Yeah, but "economy and how you are doing" is inseparable from freedom and democracy.
You need the rule of the law and respect for private property to ensure a functional economy. You need transparency, freedom of information and speech, freedom of assembly and political representation to demand responsible government from authorities.
> The average Joe does not care about politics
That's how Putin screws up the average Ilich, and the Castros screw up the average Juan. See the connection?