Points for whether people’s views matter as little in a democracy
• Consensus politics reduces the scope for change
• Public apathy
• The electoral system ensures that a truly popular government is unlikely
• Community involvement is often negligible
• Powerful interest groups are unchallenged
• The interests and needs of minorities are unrepresented
• Lack of diversity – women and minority ethnic groups
• General feeling of powerlessness
• If we deserve better, how do we go about achieving it?
• Corruption in public office
• Other views often do not count in one-party states