And so, to your question, I think people feel happy if they know that things they care about, if they mobilize for change, they see the change quickly. If they have to wait for four years, they’re less happy. If they have to wait for eight years or twelve years, they’re very unhappy, right? So, regardless of how the democratic system works on a four-year period, we can respond to people’s need in the here and now. People are happier. This is my personal experience running the civic participation system. And especially that is true for people who are around 17 years old, or 70 years old, who both have a lot of time. But for the younger people, because they cannot vote yet, they don’t have the full civic participation rights, they have a lot of agenda they want to set.

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