I can see where you’re coming from there. “We get what we deserve” - because in all the general elections that come before, in truth “The public didn’t know what they were voting for” - but merely thought they did.
“I’ll make your life better” (99.9% of the time, you might get a little upside to your life, but with a whole load of downside stuff that didn’t even get hinted at in the election campaign for the candidate you ended up supporting)
“I don’t vote - they are all useless to me.” or “None of the above” - which is actually consent to the incumbents carrying on the way they do, without punishment.
The thing that has changed as recently as since the 2017 election - is that the public are more plugged-into politics these days more so than they’ve ever been.
Most people have Iphones. Most people can’t type and have no clue how to code.
That means you’ve got an awful large number of people that’ll read stuff - but don’t write it.
A “diode” of such opinions - can only lead to one thing:
On-line politics being truly weaponized in a way that someone like Rudolf Hess could only dream of!
We’re all poltiicians these days.
Is someone like me, who can type fast, use big words, and actually has some legacy science training “more powerful in that capacity” than someone who reads all the blurb, but doesn’t respond to it, except by taking to the streets with their Iphones? - Hell yes!!
My arch-enemy in the world - isn’t some hapless Labour, Conservative, or Libdem voters, Europhile or not.
It is always going to be someone who is my peer - but chooses to use their knowhow, wisdom, philosophy, and (most of all) technical training - against everything in my entire world.
“Pick a side” - isn’t about Left and Right for me. It is about the Unproven Truth Tellers vs the Unable to disprove Liars. Two weaponized factions that so far to date - have managed to fool well over half of us into picking a side that actually didn’t exist - until someone conjured it up to fill a “Belief vacuum”, so empty are the vast majority of people’s lives these days, outside of work…
“Brexit” - is just the tip of the iceberg in all this.
The real trouble starts with things like “Social Scoring”, “Deletable Money”, and we’re already seeing signs of “monetized thuggery” which nicely gets around the laws that forbid “raising a private army”.
If YOUR boss told you that you’ll be “let go” in the upcoming round of redundancies - unless you attend one of these militant marches in London for example (either side, doesn’t matter which) then would you deliberately not comply - or act out of fear for your livlihood and “do as you’re told”…?
History - is littered with those who tried, and failed to harness the mob mentality, Julius Caesar and Max Robespierre being the two that spring to mind. Both rabble-raisers, both responsible for the deaths of many in the name of “politics”, and both eventually falling victim to their very own political machine.
Gaining control of a mob - is the easy part. “Not dying after” - is the HARD bit. 