> On Oct 3, 2024, at 6:56 PM, Marv Gandall via groups.io
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Every advanced capitalist democracy has first past the post electoral systems
> which reward the party amassing the majority of votes cast or proportional
> representation schemes which are based on the same principle. The US
> electoral system is more undemocratic than most but it can fall into line.
> The capitalist state has an array of more effective economic, ideological,
> political and, if necessary, military means “designed to keep power from
> reflecting the will of the people."
The US isn't like "every advanced capitalist democracy" in that it has
practically always had only two parties, both competing to represent
capitalists, and practically no independent political action by the working
class. The US is also the oldest major capitalist democratic republic in the
world and is still governed by the same document that constituted an 18th
century slave state and that is better suited to the conditions of that
century. The country that murdered over three and a half million people in the
21st century is not going to fall into line - the US is headed in the opposite
direction of even less popular control over the US government and the fabulous
wealth that it serves.
Mark
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