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Getting involved with politics is a life-consuming activity, especially if you want to actually change anything. My state, unlike most in the US and unlike the US federal government, at least has a requirement that all tax issues must be voted on by the general public rather than just passed by the legislature and signed by the governor. The federal government, however, is the largest source of both taxes and onerous…
Yes, it is life-consuming. Anyone who wants to get into politics is getting into something that'll affect a lot of people's lives. It should take a lot of effort. If it were easy, our world (or the part of it that government touches, which is most of it) would be chaotic. As for "anyone who would want the job shouldn't have it," that's cute to some, but to me it's a tired thought-terminating cliche. It says "it's ok…
I don't, however, think it ought to take a life-consuming effort to make it stop affecting a lot of people's lives. But unfortunately, it probably will. Not least of which because there are a large number of people who feel entitled to make it affect a lot more of people's lives.
In any case, though, I'm surprised that you say "I don't get why more people don't do this!"; I think it's fairly obvious why more people don't do this. If it were the kind of thing you could spend a few hours doing as a volunteer effort and have an impact, rather than the kind of thing you could spend your life on and possibly accomplish nothing, then more people might do it. On the other hand, if it were that way, then there wouldn't be as much of a problem to deal with in the first place.