>>Maybe the vote should be economic. Not yesterdays people voting for yesterdays politics.
Logan's Run?
>> BTW I know how electoral systems work...
I know you do, but unhappy US citizens might benefit from the comparison. Perfect is the enemy of good, etc etc.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1