Auntie Oedipus (@Parasite@kolektiva.social):
One of the most toxic elements of democracy brain is viewing 51% as victory and 49% as defeat.
So? Do you really think that the EU parliament is a good example of democracy? O.o
It’s not perfect by any stretch of the imagination. But it’s better than whatever the fuck is going on in the US
Maybe. But on an anarchist community, I don’t feel like acting as if any representative democracy actually fulfills their promise of freedom and equality.
Not really a problem of democracy. More of an American problem with it’s 2 part, FPTP electoral system.
If your party has 51% in basic any parliamentary system, you basically rule the parliament.
So? What does that have to do with the post? Please remember that it was posted in an anarchist community.
That’s really only the case under incredibly undemocratic systems like the US’s that don’t support more than two parties or proportional representation.
The problem isn’t democracy, the problem is undemocratic systems that just call themselves democracies.
It happened in the UK with the Brexit vote.
Granted we technically have a two party system here but the Brexit vote wasn’t a vote for either of them but for whether our country left the EU. Then when 51.89% voted leave, our idiot government called that democracy and we left.
that is because politics has effectively turned into a football game in some countries
