A decent modern voting system would probably tilt the balance back towards sanity though.<p>Knowledge of how politics actually works seems to be one of these areas of intentional ignorance.<p>A popular alternative comedian in the UK tried to argue (correctly) that voting was pointless under our gerrymandered, first-past-the-post, two party system and was broadly ridiculed by the establishment media.<p>He didn&#x27;t really argue that well for it, but he&#x27;s a comedian, the fact that they couldn&#x27;t really present a valid counterpoint as professional political pundits was depressing.