Politicians enjoy a pile of benefits and privileges that the average citizen has no access to at all.
Simple example: They can lie to you and suffer no consequences. If you lie to them, even a minor lie, you can end up with serious criminal charges.
You took the list as literally applying to average citizens.
You took this part:
"In other words, like any real job by average citizens."
and completely ignored the next sentence:
"They should not be a privileged and protected class."
That's the point.
They are supposed to work for us and represent us, and yet they fly far above us at so many levels it is incredible. This is what students should be demonstrating about. It is destructive and equally corrupt regardless of political party.
In other words, it should be a universal truth (no party exceptions) that politicians should not exist as a class above those who elect them. Simple examples are health insurance, consequences for lies, fully paid lifetime benefits and pensions, etc. This is wrong.
Politicians enjoy a pile of benefits and privileges that the average citizen has no access to at all.
Simple example: They can lie to you and suffer no consequences. If you lie to them, even a minor lie, you can end up with serious criminal charges.
You took the list as literally applying to average citizens.
You took this part:
"In other words, like any real job by average citizens."
and completely ignored the next sentence:
"They should not be a privileged and protected class."
That's the point.
They are supposed to work for us and represent us, and yet they fly far above us at so many levels it is incredible. This is what students should be demonstrating about. It is destructive and equally corrupt regardless of political party.
In other words, it should be a universal truth (no party exceptions) that politicians should not exist as a class above those who elect them. Simple examples are health insurance, consequences for lies, fully paid lifetime benefits and pensions, etc. This is wrong.