I agree with you for the most part, except for your concern about not having a vote on laws that effect you. In America, voting is a placebo. It has been effect

I agree with you for the most part, except for your concern about not having a vote on laws that effect you. In America, voting is a placebo. It has been effectively neutered of all potency or threat to the political regime. Do you believe that things would be different if Americans elected John McCain in 2008 or Romney in 2012? All politicians draw from the same pool of bureaucrats and advisors. They all went to the same schools, mostly in the Northeast United States. Every member of the President's board of economic advisors has been from a school in Cambridge, MA since the turn of the millennium. Only 2,000 jobs are elected or politically appointed out of a federal bureaucracy numbering over 2.5 million people. We could give the Brits a vote in American elections and it simply wouldn't make any difference. Democracy has been successfully tamed by politicians.