Some thoughts about our current political system, from V for Vendetta:

“It’s no good blaming the drop in work standards upon bad management, either, though to be sure, the management is very bad. In fact, let us not mince words. The management is terrible.

“We’ve had a string of embezzlers, frauds, liars, and lunatics making a string of catastrophic decisions. This is plain fact.

“But who elected them? It was you! You who appointed these people! You who gave them the power to make your decisions for you!

“While I admit that anyone can make a mistake once, to go on making the same lethal errors century after century seems to me nothing short of deliberate.

“You have encouraged these malicious incompetents, who have made your working life a shambles. You have accepted without question their senseless orders. You have allowed them to fill your workspace with dangerous and unproven machines.

“You could have stopped them. All you had to do is say ‘No!’ You have no spine. You have no pride.”