@tokyo_0 That's such a good way of putting it. Maybe I was naive back then, but I remember being shocked that 100,000 of us took to the streets saying we should not attack Iraq and yet Blair ignored us, and didn't really pay a political price for it. And if they're able to ignore people on the actual streets, imagine how little attention they pay to Twitter rants.
I don't know what the solution is, but something's broken.