The People are complicit in the incompetent and arrogant government system we have here.

Blindly (the minority sliver of actual people who bother) re-electing the gang of beholden, owned, usual suspects in an ever revolving turntable of government positions guaranteeing mediocrity, inefficiency and morass every time.

Ed can critique from the outside because the people (in a moment of clarity?) rejected his lifetime political ambitions. If he were still in office would he still be part of the status quo?