Kevin: As Umair has suggested in his article, the political leaders are impotent to make the kind of changes we so much need.

Thirty years ago, I believed that we needed a much heftier tax on fuel--to lessen the demand for this commodity. Our whole economy would much different than today. Had I been running for public office at that time, the proper adjective to describe me is "unelected." Should be blame the leaders? Or blame the system?

We can keep changing our leaders out hoping than someone like me (of 30 years ago) gets elected and can actually make this kind of change. But we should not be surprised we don't get what we want.

Or we can start working on a new system.

https://medium.com/discourse/tiered-democratic-governance-3f36a8f45660