"Jim: in that it has never been any different."
Contempt for politicians has reached new levels
That governments have nearly always been elected by a minority is probably true - parliamentary democracy has always been a misnomer, but as our media has swum#ng more and more to the right and out political choice has become virtually indistinguishable one from the other, so our 'democracy' has become less and less democratic.
"preferable"??? - we are set fair for yet another economic crash - never managed to get my head around Marxist theory, he did project the idea that capitalism would decline into more and more crises leading to more and more repression, particularly of the less well-off in society - it seems to be "all happening now", as the song said.
Perferable to those least likely to be affected, maybe!
Jim Carroll