Very, very expensive entertainment.

Democracy started approx 500BC, or at least that appears to be the official line.

I disagree. When the progressives who came down from the trees 4-5 million years ago sat down to discuss who would go out looking for animals they could kill and eat and who would sit around looking pretty while the women worked among them preparing dinner they were practicing “democracy”.

From that point on people have gathered to discuss future actions, each having the opportunity to input their ideas and views Rules were set, no doubt on things of import such as who would drive the animals, who would dig the pits when there wasn’t a handy cliff, who would make the spare spears for when one broke during the hunt etc.

More “democracy”.

Only when a person or group of people decided they must make those decisions for their cohort did “democracy” cease. Then occurred dictatorship in some form, where some dictate the actions of others – always at a cost to the dictated.

Both these situations seem to be the natural state of man but only one can happen at the same time.

In the “free World” we have adopted that second path and called it by the name of the first, pretending.

Different places have adopted different ways of corrupting “democracy” in this way but corrupt it they have.

A large part of that corruption came about due to practicalities: Simply there are too many people.

Fair enough! Democracy can never be perfect. We have invented the corruption called “representative democracy” where people supposedly select a representative who will do just that.

These people gather in a “Parliament” where they can discuss and debate topics, with a view to presenting all facts from which the “representatives” can decide, on behalf of their people, what is the right course of action for the all.

Then some bright bastard decided that they could corrupt the system further by introducing party politics where representatives don’t represent anyone but their own small group.

Parliament now keeps a “debating chamber” not for debate but for speechifying, for justifying the decisions of that small group.

All decisions are made by a very small group of the original small group and Parliament discusses those decisions, without any attempt to convert anyone’s opinion, only to pacify those paying the costs of those decisions.

Parliament, and particularly the ”debating chamber” have become nothing more than theatres presenting very, very expensive entertainment.

There is no other reason for the current Parliament to exist.

“Democracy” is but a distant memory.

The recent clown show fits perfectly into that model!