Yeah, and I think that is partly because people associate deliberation, with good reason, with taking the time needed. People instinctively think that destruction is easy and coming to consensus is hard, so it takes more time. In Japan, when we say “broad listening,” we always couple it with the idea of “agile governance,” which challenges this and says, actually, broadening now with AI sense-making is even quicker than parliamentary debate. So by portraying this as a higher bandwidth, lower latency democracy, it becomes… you can reuse the DOGE argument. It makes the government more efficient and also more effective.

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