The Changing Role of the Critical E-Citizen Wanting Democracy

The public’s manipulation from organised political parties’ behaviours to exploit fear given the human needs for certainty from political systems, divides a nation along fault lines, and now in many nation states weaponized information has reached new heights. Voting in representational democracy is inadequate for democracy, and the waste of taxpayers’ money (and ongoing wicked problem of budget deficits), makes the critical citizen a necessity to bring about balance for parliamentary productivity so vulnerable marginalised people are no longer exploited from the advent of e-politics. Critical citizens are the people saying no to the ongoing problems in society for a culture of fear and dependency that political parties promote for their own agendas to win government. A new culture of empowered citizens for their good life journey is critical citizens who demand better services from their government and those who serve in the governing roles as MPs in representational democracy transition in this book through e-politics to e-democracy.