The Public Is Not A Beggar
The public should stop being spoken to like a beggar asking rulers for kindness. The public is the owner. The state belongs to the people who pay for it, suffer under it, vote inside it, and bury their lives beneath its failures. When citizens ask for records, they are not being impatient. When citizens ask about appointments, they are not sabotaging change. When citizens ask about fuel, fertilizer, prices, corruption and court cases, they are not serving the opposition. They are doing the job a republic requires. A government that cannot tolerate questions is already rotting. A movement that calls every critic an enemy is already becoming what it replaced. That is why the article matters. It is not asking for perfection. It is asking whether the people who inherited the mandate still understand who gave it to them. The answer cannot be a speech. It has to be conduct.
