"People went on voting. They'll go on voting."
The percentage of people voting has been steadily dropping in Western "representative democracies" for some time now, along with political party membership. Probably because they are realising that voting changes nothing, and major world events like the Iraq invasion and globalisation have been foisted on us in a totally undemocratic way.
Politicians rule by cynical "divide and conquer" methods and don't represent anyone except themselves and their parties, which have a total membership in Aotearoa of less than 40,000.
"Representative democracy" is a con trick. People can sort things out for themselves locally, and will have to when the coming crisis of capital and energy shows our "leaders" to be utterly bankrupt of solutions.