PROBLEMS WITH DEMOCRACY

Once upon a time, there was one culture and our homogenous society represented by two parties, each offering a clear take on more-or-less agreed problems.

These days, society isn't so much divided as split into many many little groupuscules. And politicians have to appeal to all this heterogeneity and assemble them all into one voice. It's impossible!

You can't expect a first-past-the-post, meant for two parties, to be successful at finding the common answers. 

You can't expect this version of democracy to produce leaders any more.

We don't have leaders any more, we only have liars.