Which I suppose doesn’t sound too bad.
What I object to is for the rich to get richer and more ‘elite’, while the poor get poorer.

‘The American Dream can be described as a belief in freedom that allows all citizens and residents of the United States of America to achieve their goals in life through hard work. Today, in America it generally refers to the idea that one’s prosperity depends upon one’s own abilities and hard work, not on a rigid class structure, ‘

But I think the class has just come to mean how rich you are, and whether you can afford to give your child the ‘best’ education so that they can become rich and do he same for their kids and so on.

Personally I feel that politics makes me feel unempowered. I have only one vote every few years. I’ve only voted once and it was for what I saw as the lesser of two evils, which in my country was labour – I think they lost.

But I’d like to see radical change, with care of the enviroment as being highest priority.

If I wanted to make an impact I think I’d have to resort to physical protest – perhaps I should go on hunger strike…or perhaps not.

But I think individuals can make an impact on a local level by protesting. In fact I was very impressed and proud of the children in my village recently, using their own initiative they decided to protest about a road that was, for some bizarre reason, chosen to be put through their park. So they made some banners and yelled at the passing cars to sound their horns in encouragement (which they did), while the older children took down the builder’s fencing.

That was a week ago and the fence is still down and people listened. I got quite excited myself and almost considered chaining myself to the swing.. I made sure I got my children involved because I felt it was a good education.

I suppose I’d like to see proportional representation which seems a lot fairer, also I think it would encourage more people to vote.