Im reflecting from the pov of a parents role re: the kids. If you give the kids what they want, its going to be soda and candy every day of their lives. Some deciaions are tough, e.g. delayed gratification, and holding ones ground, but do voters even care about stuff like that?
Can we even hope on common sense, when the population is concerned?
Anakin: we need a system where the politicians decide what’s in the best interest of all the people and then do it
Padme: that’s exactly what we do; the trouble is people don’t always agree
Anakin: then they should be made to
Padme: sounds an awful lot like a dictatorship