@simsa04

>Elections are about creating an identification between authorities and the voting public, so that by casting a ballot voters accept the descriptions of reality—of which problems it consists, what to do about them—given by the authorities.

I cannot disagree with you on this, but, we also have a saying in the US.

"If you didn't vote, I don't want to hear your complaining."

I don't know what the answer is to the issues the "common people" have in getting heard by their governments, also having traveled to different countries and talking to people from different countries, most of the complaints about the current government are pretty common around the world, the elected officials only listen to money.

At this point I would rather be in the EU (or most anywhere else) than the UK with what I have heard is going on over there.