Well, let me assure you, Mitt Romney won't be the leader of the GOP nor president.

In terms of politics in the last sixty years we have had mostly conservative governments. The majority of them were far more to the right than your views. I would have agreed with most of their politics up to Cameron.

However, what the majority want and what they actually get in political representation is something else. For most of last century the public wanted capital punishment yet none of its elected parties would pass it...they wanted Brexit, but were denied a vote for decades and only given one out of desperation...they have always wanted lower immigration but none of the parties have lowered it....increased it in fact and then lied to them about reducing it......I could go on but I'm getting tired.

So forgive me for observing that, in terms of whose politics has been traditionally more popular, you are talking your usual deluded nonsense.

Edited by Stirlingsays (25 Mar 2022 11.12pm)

Well, let me assure you, Mitt Romney won't be the leader of the GOP nor president.

In terms of politics in the last sixty years we have had mostly conservative governments. The majority of them were far more to the right than your views. I would have agreed with most of their politics up to Cameron.

However, what the majority want and what they actually get in political representation is something else. For most of last century the public wanted capital punishment yet none of its elected parties would pass it...they wanted Brexit, but were denied a vote for decades and only given one out of desperation...they have always wanted lower immigration but none of the parties have lowered it....increased it in fact and then lied to them about reducing it......I could go on but I'm getting tired.

So forgive me for observing that, in terms of whose politics has been traditionally more popular, you are talking your usual deluded nonsense.

Edited by Stirlingsays (25 Mar 2022 11.12pm)

What's the difference ?

Serious question.

Do you actually believe in representative democracy, or do you believe that we ought to adopt a policy of direct democracy?

I've taken my time as I don't have a definite answer to what a best system would be.

I certainly seem to spend a lot of my political time criticising modern day elites.

In the past I would have had more trust in the system, but today I have far less.

However, that doesn't mean I'm against the concept of elites....which would be ridiculous anyway as they are an inevitability of any system. However, it's pretty clear to me that meritocracy isn't working as it should. I mean look at the last few presidents. The system isn't advancing and promoting the brightest.

Essentially I criticise the western system....which is run for the benefits of elites over its populations....Now obviously China and Russia are enemy states of the west (something I think was mishandled with Russia) However, there the billionaires have to work in concert with the state....the state isn't run essentially for them. Obviously I'm not for one minute saying that we should become those countries....but in the past our elites connected their destiny to that of their peoples....that has changed. To make a WW1 comparison the officers use to climb out of the trenches with the men, today our 'betters' regard us as cattle.

It's a difficult question.....I don't have a fully formed response to it as I'm not a political theorist.....but their are some obvious flaws within the current system.

You have your view and the right to be wrong.

Something which you exercise with energised frequency.