Politics should show its workings

Every party says it wants trust. Very few of them behave as if trust has to be earned in public.

Future Union should not do the weird fake-modesty routine about AI. Of course we use it. The future is not a hobby. The real question is whether the tools are being used to make politics more legible or simply more manipulative.

That means publishing the source links. It means refusing the dark-data, persuasion-lab, microtargeting fantasy that has already poisoned too much political communication. It means making the serious surfaces inspectable enough that the public can see the shape of the case, not just the slogan that came out the other side.

The open-source politics instinct is not about dumping every internal note on the internet. It is about replacing blind trust with visible reasoning and visible evidence.

If politics is going to ask people for time, trust, money, or votes, it should have to show more of its homework and less of its spin room.