Great Britain — a post-democracy?

[Blinge]

Post Democracy is probably a term that can be applied to most of the world's developed countries. I mean who in the UK really has faith in the voting system? The two party system for the past 20 years are all 'same shit, different tie.' The first chance the Liberal Democrats had to form a decent voter base since the days of bloody Gladstone and they go and make this appalling coalition.

I find it hard to see any point in democracy if most voters aren't convinced that their vote is worth a damn, that it's all a formality, part of a performance. What's to blame for this? A domination of 'moderate' politics? The only powerful parties hold the center of the political spectrum in terms of policy while civil liberties are gradually eroded and the wealth divide increases; aren't these physical effects historically associated with more extreme politics?

You can ask how much power governments actually have now, what with deregulation and increasing corporate control..

At my workplace (some corporation that owns fucking everything) the talk was always about them two girls that attempted to smuggle drugs out of Peru. Nothing about Miranda's* arrest, nothing about Bradley Manning's sentence. No one should give a damn about those drugmule girls. But the big hoo-ha is because they're from the british isles... Christ, I don't partake personally but imo drugs are not a big enough deal to warrant constant press coverage. Ugh i'm done.

Edit: *David Miranda, the bf of a guardian journalist who interviewed Edward Snowden. (not the comedian Miranda Hart...)

[Ed Oscuro]

I find this term "post democracy" pretty funny. If people knew what kinds of tactics and ballot box-stuffing techniques went down 50 years ago, today's scandal-obsessed media circus PC-enforcing atmosphere to politics seems like a fantastic luxury.