I'm not sure why so many people still keep advocating elections in an age when it ought to be clear to any objective observer that the average voter is sleepwalking into a new dark age.
Perhaps it's intellectual laziness, or perhaps it's a trait inherited from a time when a single person's voice still made a difference because communities were only a few hundred or thousand people.
Buckminster Fuller said something that I'm sure will resonate with many HNers, and that seems more likely to bring about positive change:
"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, design a new model that makes the existing model obsolete."
Eh, the last time any single party got the majority of the popular vote was the 1931 general election — and then a coalition National Government was formed regardless. The last time the Government got the majority of the popular vote was 2010, and before that Churchill's wartime coalition.
The Tories got a larger proportion of the total vote than Labour did in 2005 (35.2%), and I don't remember hearing much uproar about that.
Our system is hopelessly broken and getting the politicians to fix it would be like getting the turkeys to vote for Christmas.