There is no problem with the government. People vote for who they want to vote for and the contender/party with the majority will win. If there was real discontent as this video attempts to illustrate surely a third alternative would have already appeared and began to gain momentum. This seems to be once again a fringe group overhyping a problem attempting to gain support from the public. If there was a genuine issue we would already be seeing the mechanisms of change.

This Year of Youth project which you seem to be a part of has identified a cause that they feel is important to them. This is something that youth tend to do once they realize they have the power to make changes in a democratic form of government. While it's definitely noble to throw devotion and support to something you feel dearly, there are a few problems.

First and foremost is that even if the project manages to get members nominated, people will not vote for the younger generation. It's purely a matter of fact that youth do not have the experience to occupy seats in high level government. The reason being lack of experience in related issues, a lawyer of 30 years or an economist is a much more sound choice. They're also able to identify with a larger segment of the population as they have been a part of every age group under them. While I agree governments are extensively dominated by lawyers, they also need wider repsentation from groups such as economists and engineers. A government with more people other than lawyers would be a great thing, I just think that economists and engineers are a more viable choice than "youth."

Secondly, even if you were to get a member of congress, governor, or even an aide to one of these reprsentatives elected you would have as much trouble as the current representatives do. The reason that "Change We Can Believe In" has been slow is that campaigning on a promise is a lot easier than actually implementing it on a federal or state level.

In a nutshell, change is a lot harder to implement than creating a campaign based on an idea. The real world happens and can often interfere with these agendae. It's something that comes with maturity, learning that politics is really about choosing the lesser of two evils as large changes are hard to orchestrate.

PS: I believe what Creepy was talking about in regards to the fireworks is a UK holiday only and 5 Nov 2012 is the next full term US election.

Shane, it seems as if you have fallen for the trick. You are thinking exactly what the government wants you to think. "No one has complained yet, so there must not be a problem." In fact with your views on this problem are views that keeps the great machine alive.

We need change. Actual real change, not just a quick change from republican to democrat because both of those parties are ran by the same Fat Cats. In order for real change the citizens that haven't already been molded by society, will need to step up.

In countries like the US or Britain the two party system ensures that real "change" is almost never going to happen. I'm not necessarily sure whether I want some revolutionary third party to come in and change everything, I'm not saying I'm a massive proponent of the two party system as it is. I just see it as a case of better the devil you know. How do we know that these revolutionaries will come in and deliver the change they promise? How do we know it will be "better"? How do we know they will even be able to do it? It's certainly not as simple as just waving a magic wand. That's why I oppose people like Ron Paul, apart from the fact he's a backwards pro-life creationist idiot, half the things he wants to do would never be feasible to implement in the current political system. Its all very well saying "we want to do this and this and this and we will change the system and we will make it better". But I think it's not looking at our political system practically enough. Not that we shouldn't strive to improve our politics.. but we should be practical and reasonable about it.

Political campainging is about words, politics is about action, I think many can do the former but much fewer the latter.

what if the world ends on 12/12/12?