2024-05-18
Our democracy is so structured that only candidates for the major parties have any realistic hope of getting elected. History shows that to be so, or at least to have been so in the past ...
Major reforms need somehow to be instituted that would allow independent candidates a fair opportunity to present their case, and/or voters need to proactively hold their elected politicians / parties to account, which they don't currently do because they have been brainwashed over many years to believe that only candidates of the major parties have any chance of election - a self-fulfilling belief if ever there was one.
If we voted according to our conscience rather than for the least worst main party candidate, we might surprise ourselves!
