Representative democracy is great

[mrswdk]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-36572405

As much as we all care passionately about either Remain or Leave, we are, at the end of the day, all British citizens who have to work together as part of a functioning society. I really do fear for Britain, given the divisions in British society that this referendum has caused. Dishonest and insulting campaigning is tearing Britain apart. Make it stop.

Ditto the US presidential elections.

All hail elective democracy, and its power to divide a society into 2 or more hostile and bitterly conflicting camps!

[tzor]

Andrew Wilkow often states that he feels the problem in the US is not that it is polarized, but that it is not polarized enough. There are two competing political philosophies in the United States with two completely different mindsets. In the middle is an entrenched political class that only believes in holding on to power forever so they pretend to be one political philosophy or the other and people fall for it hook line and sinker.

That's why we have Clinton and Trump the presumptive nominees instead of Cruz and Sanders. The later both represent the political philosophy of their party better than the former.