The number one enemy of freedom.

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It is not corrupt politicians who want it take it way. Nor it is corrupt corporations who want to take it away.

It is not the fault of any single political policy put into play by anybody in power.

It is the belief that the people are powerless. It is the lack of a "can do" attitude. It is the endless downward spiral of hopelessness that people are spiraling downwards into as the state of the world seems to be getting worse with each passing day.

People in the US have the power to take the power back. The only things hindering them is the belief that everything is completely out of their hands, the belief that it is not their responsibility to, and the belief that we're all screwed so why bother - which are all completely false beliefs.

Too bad that way too many of them would rather watch television and whine about their problems as if that was going to help anything.

Inactivity of the citizenship - that's what people should really be afraid of.

Think about THAT little nugget of amateur political commentary for a few moments.

Taxes.

It's the power of a state to take what is yours and give it to someone else. While a necessary evil of society, taxation is the easiest way to take the wealth and power of the people and centralize it into the state.

Oh the number of Thomas Jefferson quotes that come to mind....

If the people are not aware enough and intelligent enough to control their government through the power of elections then they will be screwed by any group or individual who is powerful enough and smart enough to take advantage of general stupidity and misinformation. Putting powerful armaments in the hands of brutal unaware idiots does not guarantee general good will and freedom and a proper civil culture.

Oh it is so terrible here, I'm really suffering it is only now that we have a supreme court and hopeful we will get an elected second chamber, but of course progress is bad.

People are happy to use the EU when it suits them, for instance European court of human rights.

If anything countries like France and Germany are learning that they can't have it have it all their own way. But then again the economic recoveries in those countries are better than the UK, so you can't exactly say it sucks to be them.

One of the cultural problems in the UK is that we assume we can't roll with the punches. We assume we are weak and therefore if we join Europe it will be lights out. That is our problem not theirs. We would be the same as them in their position, which is how the political field works.

What is really the threat to the UK, is the growing sense of victim hood, helplessness and weakness, and propensity to moan about everything and anything without taking any responsibility for it. This is a cultural meme.

As for referenda, they can be problematic look what happened in Switzerland. They provoke knee jerk emotional responses without really thinking things through.

If you like we can abolish MPs, political parties and elections and just have a website where people suggest ideas for referendums and then slowly descend into chaos “Never-end-um”