Originally Posted by
SASless
We rarely learn from history. Winston had us figured out when he opined that we as a Nation would do the right thing after we tried every other way first. (Or words to that effect.)
Yup
A conversation I had late on Thursday night in a hotel when watching the UK election exit polls come in. 4 of us sitting around seeing it. Opinion shared by one guy and agreed by us all was that Majority of politicians UK go to same type of University (17% of MPs went to Oxford/Cambridge), others will be similar. Most senior ministers will fall into that. Many will have either worked as an assistant (intern) with MP / Union / Think tank / Local councillor and will not have had a proper job where real decisions and real life needs to be experienced.
The similar background means that they think like each other, act like each other and there is no real difference in mentality. US Congress is similar in certain ways.
The end result is you end up with politicians who are more similar than they are different and make the same decisions because they know no difference.
As they divorced from the people they don't understand what really impacts those who vote and think someone else can pay for it.
Most revolutions start because people get tired of paying too much for something, this is the trigger point, "No taxation witho representation", the more you get like that the more the end result ends up similar to the Boston Tea Party.