| We can't elect different politicians. The big lie of democracy is that you get a choice about policy. You really don't. What if there are no leaders on the ballot who support the policies you want? What if there are no leaders on the ballot who support very popular policies? What if polices are presented dishonestly, so voters don't get a fair choice on them? What if policy is monopolised by party machines, so you actually have democracy twice removed - once from voters to parties, then again from parties to leaders? I agree the referendum became a ridiculous exercise in "Are you more or less happy? Yes/No" - which is no way to make a decision of this sort, especially when a lot of people clearly aren't happy at all. But that just emphasises how badly broken the British system is. It actively selects for political dysfunction. So of course dysfunction is what everyone gets. The reality is you could pick a random selection of historically competent professionals from various fields, parachute them into power, and they'd do a far better job of picking policy and making sensible decisions than our professional pols do. |