Apart from the politicians themselves, who clearly have a vested interest, prominent among the encouraging voices are earnest journalists – or sneaky members of the global media conspiracy, if you prefer to think in those terms. Whether their motivation is an idealistic vision of the benefits of democracy, a sinister desire to bend you to the will of their overlords or just a lazy intellectual arrogance that leads them to assume they know the political landscape better than you do, is a ma...
