Corrupt and incompetent officials, venal politicians, slow, expensive and untrustworthy courts, silly rules and a feeling of public powerlessness all combine to make voters feel fed up.
Chief among them is the willful bypassing of children by political parties because they do not have voting rights and therefore do not need to be wooed, the powerlessness of children to make their issues known to Government and general sentiments that children are subservient to adults and thus somehow have rights inferior to those of the adults.
As for motive, Emil gives us plenty of insight into his barbed logic, recalling the words Morten Anker had said to him: "Why should I suffer when those responsible for my torment do not?"; talking of powerlessness, righting wrongs, wanting to make everything his father loved (namely art) "ugly and twisted" and ruing the day he was born.
The poverty and powerlessness of women in Africa and Asia are combining to make them increasingly vulnerable to AIDS, which some research groups are now calling a women's disease.
When the war breaks out, she rages against the injustice of it and, frustrated by her own powerlessness, volunteers as a nurse in order to make a difference.
The nurses in this study experienced powerlessness, frustration and worrying when they had difficulties to make ethical decisions with the patients' best in focus.
The heartbroken often struggle with feelings of powerlessness; frustration that it's not within their control to make things the way they want.
Asked about Mr. Qurei's complaints about powerlessness over security, Mr. Rudeineh said: "Abu Ala has the right to make changes to bring in more ministers or fire ministers.
Cities are the spaces where those without power get to make a history and a culture, thereby making their powerlessness complex.
I think that in the face of such enormous powerlessness, it makes total sense for us to grope around for ways to make ourselves feel better.
