Democracy. The Grand dellusion

Every 5 years the electorate sign a blank cheque to their political 'representatives' in the mass illusion that this constitutes proactive participation in politics when in fact it is the exact opposite, being the ultimate expression of passivity.Viewers who phone in to vote for their preferred X Factor contestant on ITV are more pro actively engaged.Somehow their elected dictators have convinced the voters that handing their lives over to them constitutes political engagement.By voting in the present system people are effectively contracting out their lives to politicians and this can only have a pernicious infantilising effect on the electorate.The masterstroke of our political leaders is convincing the people that this system of democracy will ensure their liberties when in fact it is the very thing that has ensured that their liberties have been removed.