I’m writing a book exploring the notion that the current political system simply serves to keep itself going on the basis that people are under the illusion that they somehow have a choice in the government of ‘society’.
In reality the whole system is a scam keeping people subjugated and prevents revolution.
In this ‘scamocracy’ as I call it now and again a so called ‘progressive’ government is elected, which allows selected legislation giving the impression that people can influence and mitigate the capitalist status quo. This ‘progressive’ government never usually lasts more than two political terms with the second term often much weaker or even a coalition, only for the establishment party (in the U.K. it’s the Conservatives) to gain true power again when there has been a change of personnel and therefore selling themselves as a ‘new approach’. This being the case for example. the current Labour Party is simply a functioning part of conservative rule, acting as a kind of volcanic eruption releasing the stress of ongoing establishment misrule.
In order for people’s lives to improve and for society to improve the entire system needs to change from being a Scamocracy to a system where there is in theory no such thing as a ‘politician’ and humans are ‘trained’ in how to organise and ‘govern’ without the need for the pursuit of power.
Whether this is my first political treatise or simply the basis of yet more unpublished dystopian fiction I am yet to decide - probably I’d go dystopian fiction (even though it’s true)