Amateurs also like initial truisms. Usually they do not clarify what is at issue in them. That may not seem so astonishing at first. Amateur Muddles Professionals usually have a clear control of their strategies as strategy. Knowledge and activity stimulates legislation benificial to the popular favor.
Individual passiveness leaves their elected stranded on the big business' side of the street.
The student later documents the voters' political ignorance precisely, as she promises in sentence 1. But when most voters don't know or don't act, legislators heed only the few who do, namely, persons in big business. Perhaps her teachers have been too busy identifying the easier problems with mechanics, ignoring rhetoric altogether. Most of our average and even below-average students in their wordhordes already register sarcasm and easy irony. Most make quite perceptive word choices in speech at least occasionally.