Living in a democracy is a never-ending referendum on your citizenship.

You propose yourself as a citizen, and you vote everyday on your capacity to do so. I think this is an interesting way to look at civic participation and what being an active citizen means. I grew up in a communist country and now live in a capitalist democracy, so I can’t help but think how democracy is an experiment in generalizing the right to propose and to vote to the masses. I guess that’s why the capacity to propose and to vote is a capacity to propose yourself as an active citizen, and to vote for your capacity to do so. <br><br>Thought?<br><br>Edit: I also want to emphasize that the proposal and the vote do not necessarily have to occur in the context of elections. There are other ways to vote for your capacity to be a citizen. There are many ways to propose and to vote, among which voting in elections is one. <br><br>Edit2: I like this sub because people here are willing to engage in a conversation. I rarely had an opportunity to engage with someone like that in person. Most people just drop a token from the infinite set of tokens that are circulating on social media and breez through.