We have to think long and hard before we go anywhere near elections. All power corrupts. This corruption spreads through all levels, wherever power is being exercised. Everybody who once had a job has walked off with pencils, taken stuff home from work. The whole idea of political representation assumes 'the people' are not there to plead for their own interests.
Representation depends on exclusion .
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.