The famous American author Mark Twain is rumoured to have once said ‘If voting made a difference, they wouldn’t let us do it.’
The year 2016, though, was supposed to be the year where voting did make a difference. But the twin political disruptions of 2016 – Brexit in the United Kingdom and the election of Donald Trump as President in the United States – have not lived up to expectations.
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