But I think we need to ask a different question. How about: What if people didn't accept the authority of government? Given that less than a quarter of people in any one nation are represented by "their" government, and that "their" government is bound by a set of rules that puts economic growth and capital wealth above the real needs of the planet and the people that live upon it, we are really talking about something more than withdrawal of mandate. There is no middle-ground -- the systems cannot be improved, they never existed to serve the people, they only existed to serve the systems themselves.
Nothing less than complete rejection of the dominant systems of power will be sufficient to breach the immense moral void between what we need as a species, and what "democratic" governments impose upon us. Just one reason among many why we need to start undermining industrial civilization.
Start at www.underminers.org and go on from there"
1. http://elections.gmu.edu/Turnout_2012G.html
2. http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/edwest/2013/09/the-insanity-of-votes-for-children-who-cares-what-adolescents-think-about-politics/)
3. Get yourself a copy of The Corporation for lots more helpful information, or you can watch at http://www.youtube.com/user/machbar.
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