Euro Area

[Sir Moody]

Massive abstention just says that people have no idea and can't be bothered to think about a solution, how does that reflect positively on them? The Americans, despite their weird two-party system, know that democracy requires some level of active participation to work and that comes from normal people. In our parties the party representatives are all elected to some extent by the party base. So if the parties keep electing people from the same background then it's still the fault of the people from other backgrounds who vote for them to rise in the party ranks in the first place. The pirate party leaders here aren't from that same background as far as I can tell, however people don't dare to vote for them, they rather want someone from "that same background" and keep wondering why nothing really changes. I think it was Einstein who said: "Stupid is who keeps doing the same thing over and over, expecting a different result."

Sorry I disagree with this massively - Brenus is on the money here - the current political systems are set up to "rig" the result to a few set parties often populated by the same "type" of person.

Over here that would be private schooled social elites - these make up the bulk of both Labour and the Conservatives and due to our system these are the only parties that truly matter (the only reason the liberals (who incidentally are predominately social elites as well) are currently important is because they are in Coalition). Since both parties benefit from the current political system neither will push forward the radical and sweeping changes we need to "fix" the system so Politics once again represents the people and not just the Social Elites view of the people. Which of course assumes it ever did represent the people - I would argue it NEVER has and has always been a game of the Social Elite and we simply aren't buying their bullsh$t anymore...

On a side note the quote is "Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."