Power in the hands of too few?

I’ve finished my grieving over Brexit and have started my soul searching.  In looking for a glimmer of hope the only one I can see is if I believe that it was not a vote to put Britain first and that we can do it better than if we didn’t have all those pesky European neighbours of ours coming over eating our food and meddling in our business, but if I believe that it was an actually an outcry against the powers that be. If it was in fact the masses saying no, listen to us for once.

Unfortunately I don’t think the masses have voted for something that is in fact in their best interests, but that they have been forced to take the only opportunity they can to show their dissent.  I’ve been flip-flopping in the last few days about wether the outcome of this referendum means other forms of democracy which give the public more direct involvement in democracy, such as liquid democracy, are in fact a good thing.  One the one hand it seems to show that the general public can be swayed by inflammatory advertising and emotional triggers, which can yet still be controlled by those few in power, but on the other side this does make them widely unpredictable and in turn harder to control.  Unfortunately in the case of Brexit I doubt the reaction will be a general uprising but rather a clamp down and a short return to the status quo, those in power don’t actually want the financial system to fail nor actually to change and whether we are officially part of the European union or not will no doubt have little effective difference. 

The one hope in fact lies in the shock of the middle class. Those not in power but baffled by the irrationality of the majority.  If we ask ourselves why they acted this way, perhaps we’ll see the system for what it is, power in the hands of too few.