That's democracy.
The people choose representatives and allow them the power of making the rules.
If they fuck it up they lose their votes.
If every person chose what laws they would obey and what taxes they chose to pay there would be no system.
Just chaos.
I break the law by growing cannabis because I strongly disagree with the law and feel I can justify my actions morally and ethically.
I may be a 'leftie' but I'm no pacifist who would allow anyone to try and rob me.
If you knew me you probably wouldn't even be this opinionated with me.
But this is cyberspace where everyone is tough and successful....
funny, i didnt know i lived in a "democracy"
i live in a Republic, and unless you dont actually live in britain, so do you.
america and britain both are now run, not by our representatives, but by the mandarins they appoint to do their jobs for them while they are campaigning and raising money.
did you ever get a vote on who runs the NHS?
did you get a vote on how many asylum seekers could flood your council home tower block?
did you get a vote on how long british troops will stay in afghanistan?
you dont get democracy from national bureacracies, you get dictates from faceless bureacrats