Originally Posted by
Ad4m RST
The march could well have come and gone and only two bit extremists would of taken notice, media and social hysteria have blown it up massively. if you don't care or agree how much easier is it to ignore the insolence of these pricks?
The problem is we internalise deomcracy and carry personal baggage on an incredibly generic setup. It's designed for conflict and segregation, any common ground between parties is trivialised so we can't see the blatant co-running, voting just gives us an almost insultingly small and elaborate part to play when in truth we have no weight to pull in their arena.
We sell out our civil liberties for peace and quiet...and only see how we're getting fucked in hindsight.
Democracy simply doesnt work on a large scale in a media driven environment.
I think china will probably prove in the longer term that capitalist communism is capable of operating a big country better than democracy can.
The 4 year setup we have over here means that NO long term policy is viable, we instantly castrate the people in power by having the next vote hanging so closely over them and leave them unable to do anything genuinely useful.