That make a huge assumption, that you can work within the constraints of the Institution and not become institutionalised in the process.
The reason that governments (I'm in the UK) keep on doing this is that by its nature institutions will naturally gravitate towards this kind of behaviour, so it becomes self reinforcing.
Is it enough to just vote? Possibly not. Those peers of yours, the people you grew up with, one day they might be in Government, but don't expect them to be different from the last lot.
We need more radical action to re-establish a new relationship between a government and its people; What we have now works in many ways, but clearly it has its limits that need to be addressed.
The reason that governments (I'm in the UK) keep on doing this is that by its nature institutions will naturally gravitate towards this kind of behaviour, so it becomes self reinforcing.
Is it enough to just vote? Possibly not. Those peers of yours, the people you grew up with, one day they might be in Government, but don't expect them to be different from the last lot.
We need more radical action to re-establish a new relationship between a government and its people; What we have now works in many ways, but clearly it has its limits that need to be addressed.