> No more bloody populist snakes!

And who are the idiots, the pensioners, the facebook dwelling, the Daily Mail reading knuckle draggers gonna vote?

You get Farage because people want a Farage. I mean, have you seen what happened across the pond?

The dumb people, those with endless thirst for easy solution to complex problems, are the ones deciding the fate of the country. They’re the first ones lining up at the voting booth.

Trouble is we are bouncing back and forth between centrist politicians who are great at coalition management but systematically sweep problems under the rug [1] and can't connect with people and populist politicians who connect with people but can't govern and flood the zone with bullshit or improperly formulated issues.

One alternative is that we find politicians that can connect and can govern, the other alternative is wait a few decades for the situation that the Club of Rome warned you about to unfold and count on a less complex civilization to be easier to govern.

[1] one cynical take is that it is a primary function of political systems to keep problems off the agenda because the agenda is finite.