If most people are 'upset' with the system why is there no real change?

Answer 1

Because our minds have been softened by endless TV and celebrity gossip. No one can be bothered to do anything because they would rather sit and find out what peggy is doing in east bloody enders tonight.
Also our vote means absolutely nothing nowadays because
a) all the parties are the same snivelling opinion grasping losers with no real beliefs or policies that could not be thrown away if they did not seem popular. Hell i cannot tell the difference between the parties nowadays, labour has became new labour and the tories have also now become new labour. SPIN SPIN SPIN
b) all politicians want is power they no longer have any principals and no longer listen to their constituents
The threat of terrorists have allowed the goverment to pass laws that now make it impossible to show or protest your views in public without the fear of arrest for one thing or another.
Finally people are just plain tired, when they do manage to get a bill to parliament it is invariablly watered down so much that it is ineffective and pointless, take fox hunting for example, people have tried for so long to get it banned when it finally happens there are so many loop holes that the hunts just carry on hunting and killing foxes with impunity, SO WHAT IS THE POINT
But if you do want to start a revolution by all means e-mail me I'll be with you

Answer 2

First, it is not true that most people are upset with "the system."

As to why no real change -- in a free society such as the U.S., there is no one individual or small group who can impose change on society as a whole (with the now all too frequent exception of the courts). 300 million people, each making hundreds of personal decisions every day, are what make things the way they are. Any significant change takes a long time, as little by little a new idea is proposed by a few leading people and then gradually accepted by more and more people until it is either widely accepted in the culture or put into law by our representatives. Examples: slavery, racism, women's rights--these all took generations to change, even though now it appears obvious.

But, tradition is good because it prevents the immediate adoption of intellectual fads; the new idea has to stand the test of time and survive trial and error before it is fully embraced by the culture.

Answer 3

I think it's because people now are so de-moralised that they don't see how they can make a change.

Even if a new government is voted in, they will pretty much be the same as the last ones and people are now too dis-spirited to even vote as each option seems as bad as the next.

I have heard a number of people saying that they would vote if the option "none of the above" was included on the ballot paper. I myself have been stumped when going to vote and finding no Green Party representative for my region (not a tree-hugger but I believe we should always vote in an election and Green is the only one I can vote for without having a crisis of conscience).

The way the government has run the country has reduced us all to this and we really do need to make a change. Easier said than done though...

Answer 4

Good Q. Statistically No change takes place because the MAJORITY, even those who don't want "change", DON'T VOTE!!!

It seems far easier to grumble about the elected, than go to a polling place, cast a ballot, and then grumble, when their CHOSEN candidate might not be elected.

Steven Wolf

Certainly that answer assume it's a system within a Democratic context, while in other context's change is often attempted by Coup or revolution, as well as the fact that it happens by natural course through attrition.

Answer 5

There is plenty of real change, but not usually for the better. The people who are upset with the system can effect change, but their reasons for being upset are often selfish and unreasonable - they must be, its part of being human.

Answer 6

people get upset at most things but most they get upset about is change and i guess that is why there is no real change with the system

Answer 7

Good question!!
System remains and goes on and on because nobody dares to upset the system. We make the system and then subjugate ourselves to the system in the hope that it will do good. The system acquires an unintended power over a period of time and starts ruling over us. Nothing short of a mini-revolution then can shake the system!

Answer 8

Because it is the path of least resistance just to accept the way things are going rather than stand up and fight.The media does a wonderful job of using fear to control us.Without fear where would those in power be? My answer is to not subscribe to negative thinking. Afterall a thought once thought has the possibility to become a reality.They're are still some of us out there who do like to stand up and be counted! Keep the faith and pass it on.

Answer 9

Because the people who are 'upset' with the system are the poor, the working class, and the disadvantaged.
These downtrodden groups have no real power.

Answer 10

most people are upset with the system coz of the time it takes and the tight kitty the government offer it but unfortunately while it takes the government time and money to change it who are we again?voice of the majority perhaps but falling on deaf ears.