I agree wholeheartedly with the need to educate the electorate. But, in today's world, I'm not sure "governance will take care of itself" holds. Someone has to translate the ideal into the practical---how do these words actually affect the grind and challenges of everyday life?
That is one of the strengths of the far left and of muzz extemists. They have melded practical and ideological views into a single synthesis. Both leftists and muzz combine spirituality with activism so that they are viewed ( whether rightly or wrongly) as synonymous by many adherents. They feel emotionally connected to what they are working to achieve and that is what powers grass-roots social/ideological movements.
Bucky Fuller noted that most successful political movement had either adjunct groups or their foundations in religious or spiritual movements. One of the problems for conservatism is that unless one is well educated and well read, there is little about conservatism to motivate one to become an activist.
Bucky Fuller proposed in his Critical Path, that a spiritual movement built around the idea that we are all travelers on Spaceship Earth, each a crew member with duties to perform so that the whole thing sails on peacefully and stays repaired and functional, is one way to motivate people to feel part of society.
He furthermore points out that having a long-term goal of establishing a Real Wealth-based economy, in which everyone is essentially born a billionaire with an equal share of the entire wealth of the entire plant to spend in their lifetime, is another great way to get people to feel that their life has some purpose and benevolent goal in mind every time they go to work, lift that bale, tote that barge.
See, in Fuller's future, people work as a reward and privilege because they are the best at what they do.
He figured out that the idea that the world does not have enough to go around for everyone alive to have everything that they need without having to take something from someone else, is a fiction perpetuated by those who would pit man against man and control things for their own interests. In short, a Real Wealth economy does not have middle men who do nothing but collect interest or other rewards for essentially manipulating a monetized symbolic system of wealth transfer. Investment banks would go the way of the dinosaur because funding would be available to whoever needed it.
Sure there are elements of the notorious Marxist credo in that, but Fuller was way too smart to be seduced or deceived by collectivism. He preached that taken to its natural conclusion, free market capitalist economics combined with technology would eventually free everyone from the necessity of work, (except for a privileged few) just as they would on a space ship with a ready battalion of robots to do most of the physical work.
One does not need to pay for things on a spaceship - one requisitions them from storage because they are NEEDED. So all one must do is show proof to the commander that it is needed. No money need be exchanged.
Even Bernie Sanders people could be brought on board if the ultimate goal of a movement is to create a situation where nobody has to work unless they want to and everyone gets a check for a billion dollars the day that they are born.
