Ranked choice wouldn’t actually fix the problem. If anything it would do PR for bourgeois democracy while the exact same major forces dictated outcomes.
Exactly, the voting system will never fix the imbalances caused by concentration of capital, especially when only a handful of people have control of social and mass media, publishing and cultural industries. Not to mention how many NGOs funded by billionaires influence politics. They who have control of information, also have control over ideology.
We can all agree on the dismantling of capitalism, class hierarchy, private property, the wage system, etc. But even for everyone else, the people who still believe in capitalism (somehow), it should be obvious that a winner-takes-all voting system where we vote for one of two parties is not even a facsimile of democracy. It’s depressing actually, at least Europeans have the illusion of many different parties working directly to serve specific interests.
Of course, from our more critical lens, it may seem like a moot point.
We are all bathed in propaganda and distraction and false consciousness, so many things that should be obvious in a better world would actually be shocking and rejected out of hand by most people if you just told them the conclusive facts. Liberals invested in the voting system already conflate it with democracy and repeat propaganda against “enemy” states when they deviate from this model, calling them undemocratic. Those same liberals are unhappy with their governments and do not feel represented (correct!) but simultaneously justify and entrench their own systems as great and buy the propaganda that the real problems are things like those who vote wrong or immigrants, etc.
Underneath this propaganda is the greater mover of white supremacy and the colonizer mindset. A false sense of superiority salves the wound.
Ranked choice wouldn’t actually fix the problem. If anything it would do PR for bourgeois democracy while the exact same major forces dictated outcomes.
Exactly, the voting system will never fix the imbalances caused by concentration of capital, especially when only a handful of people have control of social and mass media, publishing and cultural industries. Not to mention how many NGOs funded by billionaires influence politics. They who have control of information, also have control over ideology.
We can all agree on the dismantling of capitalism, class hierarchy, private property, the wage system, etc. But even for everyone else, the people who still believe in capitalism (somehow), it should be obvious that a winner-takes-all voting system where we vote for one of two parties is not even a facsimile of democracy. It’s depressing actually, at least Europeans have the illusion of many different parties working directly to serve specific interests.
Of course, from our more critical lens, it may seem like a moot point.
thanks but i hate it. So many different flavors of shit and yet the stench is the same.
Ha! Well said
We are all bathed in propaganda and distraction and false consciousness, so many things that should be obvious in a better world would actually be shocking and rejected out of hand by most people if you just told them the conclusive facts. Liberals invested in the voting system already conflate it with democracy and repeat propaganda against “enemy” states when they deviate from this model, calling them undemocratic. Those same liberals are unhappy with their governments and do not feel represented (correct!) but simultaneously justify and entrench their own systems as great and buy the propaganda that the real problems are things like those who vote wrong or immigrants, etc.
Underneath this propaganda is the greater mover of white supremacy and the colonizer mindset. A false sense of superiority salves the wound.