What we currently have is what people are voting for We have something similar with respect to climate change policy in Australia - most people in polls and su

What we currently have is what people are voting for We have something similar with respect to climate change policy in Australia - most people in polls and surveys claim to want more aggressive mitigation policies, yet they will just not vote for it. A complex web of fears and other factors seems to have caused a sclerosis in most of the liberal democracies, and any significant change from the clearly dysfunctional status quo is almost impossible to bring about. Polities that can't respond to changing circumstances are not going to fare well & we clearly have deep troubles in our very near futures.