One wonders how both the residents of the UK and the US can be both at once passionate about their respective political issues that have dominated the news-cycle, and yet still be terribly cynical about their political process.

I've had I think three Brits who mentioned about their desire for greater democratic representation and wanted the UK to leave the EU (two blamed the EU, one outright only blamed their politicians, I won't name names), and all thought UK politics was a sham. Same for Americans. Even the one Trump supporter who railed about the EU being some 'globalist authoritarian regime' in comparison to the US thought the US wasn't a democracy, only some kind of oligarchy.

Even I'm not that devoid of hope.