Joe Sacco: When I’m feeling particularly ungenerous, which is often, I think our electoral regimes have devolved into frameworks amenable to politicians who stoke fear and manufacture enemies to secure votes. This phenomenon has become so normalized that ordinary people have begun to reflect the sociopathologies of the leadership class. The result is what one person I met in India termed “election-time fury.” Unfortunately, violence and elections seem well suited, and I fear this will become only more apparent as the democratic spirit fades away — thus the “future riot.”