We wouldn't need representatives if we all had the right to defend our own interests within the political system. Representation entails betrayal. Rightly, anarchists will have nothing to do with this. Anyone who has ever had the misfortune to canvass during an election as part of their political education will have probably experienced this disheartening lack of political awareness in people. She hadn't got a clue what I was talking about, didn't know what was in the Tory manifesto.
Democracy is the right of the majority to oppress the majority.
Just because some piss pot political party was voted into power doesn't mean we have to go along with it. This is wrong, and attitude to be exposed and opposed. The danger of discussing the passivity problem is that you are apt to sound elitist, arrogant, dismissive of people. If you have got this impression, I am sorry. Often businessmen say 'You'll never get poor under-estimating the intelligence of people, and the politicians' arrogance is something of the same attitude.