The end of the 19th century and most of the 20th witnessed a continuous struggle for political franchise. Thousands of human beings all over the world battled and died for the right to cast a vote in the erroneous belief that the ballot box would solve everything.
Well, it didn't. The only right you acquired was, in fact, to be taxed into oblivion and to have your personal freedom curtailed to an absolute minimum. This would explain how, in modern democracy, we ended up with a State that suffers from morbid obesity,while its citizens are dying of malnutrition.
Social justice, they call it. Disguised dictatorship would perhaps be a more appropriate term, in my opinion. Nothing to die for, though. The Roman Colosseum was probably as equally cruel, but certainly a lot more entertaining.
