Democratic management requires informed voters. People are amazingly bright and can understand what's necessary. We have a problem getting enough information to base our understanding upon. It's a sound bite problem. Honorable politicians loath them, but they get us elected.
People jump to conclusions.
Every politician's utterance may be distorted and manipulated - a reason legislators site to justify closed caucuses. That's going too far. However, a half-hour conversation with a reporter typically ends up as one sentence quoted in a brief inadequate article. It's not the reporter's fault. That leads us to fundamental choices.