The current model of institutionalized representative parliamentary democracy is broken. Voting cycles prevent politicians from truly thinking and acting for the long term. Party politics aggravate the many existing divides in our societies. There has been a class emerging of professional politicians which all too often do not represent the electorate. And political parties as institutions themselves are eroding as they are highly biased towards the older generations in power, creating multiple gridlock effects for those that will have to live with the world we hand over in the next decades.