Comments by "Curious Crow" (@CuriousCrow-mp4cx) on "the need for electoral reform" video.

Hilarious. What's your evidence for that? Please cite your source. So I can read the evidence for such nonsense. There is no such thing as a homogeneous society in any country. People in the North of Italy are different from the south. Japan is divided in three the Northern Hokkaido people are different from the southern, the Ryukan peoples, and the Okinawans, and there's prejudices amongst them. Has Russia has even been an homogeneous grouping in any meaningful sense?Chancers and crackpots in this comment feed suggest P and his pack are so desperate to sow discord in Europe, that they're employing hairless apes to man misinformation bot farms, and to spit nonsense on the Internet. Depesperate people turn to desperate measures, when they find themselves in a bind. When in a hole stop digging. It just getting stupid now.
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It's not that fair is it? Parliamentary democracy as established was never about fairness. It was about who could exercise power. And we are a country, a community, and not a corporation. The system maintained a hierarchy in place. It did not deliver fairness. That's why the 19th century Reform movement was yet another mini revolution to attempt to make parliamentary democracy more representative. The work isn't over to do that, as the currente system itself was a compromise, a convention, which has been almost destroyed by the chancers and crackpots coming out of our establishment. Time to delegate more power to the nations, regions, and communities, and put in place PR, so that the plurality of opinions can be given a voice.
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No, it doesnt. It never has worked well in two party systems. People cannot be corralled into two choices. If individualism has any worth at all, then corralling people into a binary choice is actually anti-democratic. And, you not realising that is very weird. Doing that denies choice. And democracy is about having a meaningful choice about what happens in your community. Majoritarian politics is a convention, and a binary choice leaves many people politically alienated. That's the irony. So much propaganda about parliamentary democracy being the only solution is itself incompatible with individual choice. And we don't talk about that enough. We don't talk about the issues with party politics. We don't talk about the problem of the power hungry incompetent gaining power. There's a lot we don't talk about. Modern life is itself a compromise on behalf of maintaining the status quo. It's not a natural thing. It is an artifice. And as long it met the need of the people, it was OK. But, now that the Age of AI plans to destroy the economic order, our compromises are wearing thin. And the chancers and crackpots both rich and poor, are striving to climb to the top of the greasy pole. Neoliberal economics is failing us, and so, everything is beginning to be questioned. Our delegated democracy form of politics is being questioned because whom we delegated it to are failing to deliver. I mean, in the 21st century, we've had a long time to fix poverty, to prevent economic hardship and apartheid arising. But those in charge were too busy enriching themselves. Oops. Human nature put a spanner in the works. Who would have thought that so much BS was the glue holding things together. Hence the attraction of Behavioural Science and Misinformation to manipulate the plebs. Now the BS is failing, things are being questioned,and the efforts to patch up the leaking ship are becoming more extreme. And opportunist will take advantage of that. If you want to scotch that tendency, it would mean actually giving power to the people, instead of delegating to rich and powerful chancers and crackpots who are totally in ignorance of and cut off from how the ordinary masses live in the system they control. And the Pandemic was a magnifying lens that concentrated the heat to show how unsatisfying things really were. How dumb ideas permeated our world to our detriment. We haven't yet evolved to dismantle the rot. Future generations may do it, but for now, it's all melting, like wax under a flame, as the impossibility of the current economic system succeeding for anyone but the very asset wealthy minority is being laid bare.
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FPTP is a voting method that doesn't rely on the popular vote for legitimacy. It relies on the belief that the method is fair. It never has been strictly fair, because every vote does not count. It never has. History shows this. And the off centre parties are now bleating about it, because they think they can gain power under some form of PR. But, the truth is that if we really wanted to be fair, we would use Sortition instead, and discard both PR and FPTP. That would kill the influence of party politics stone dead. Is that likely to happen? Not in my lifetime, if ever. Why? It would neuter completely the influence of political entrepreneurs, who rely on manipulating and control of the masses. But, it's the only truly democratic method. Every citizen has a chance to get into power, and exercise it to serve the interest of their community even for a brief time. But human nature has not yet evolved to be that courageous. Imagine everyone gets a chance to serve as an MP for a year. For Sortition to work. We would need a wider and more delegated exercise of power in politics. Such a short term service means the end of the parliamentary system, and the introduction of delegated power to the communities, being as important and as powerful a central parliament. Politics would then become a form of National Service, and the party system would be powerless. Something for ordinary people to think about. Political Scientists have been thinking about it for sure.
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Tell that to the Conservatives because a large majority of their 75% of electoral victories in the 20th century were achieved with no majority in the popular vote under FPTP. It's only unfair when your puppet isn't winning, right?
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Absolutely. An agenda is being driven to make our country seem it's ungovernable. It's not, as Starmer is trying to prove. A lot of people want things to work. Let's give him the chance to start repairing the damage.
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