I appreciated this query in the Guardian this morning:
I feel Arwa Mahdawi asks an entirely related query of the US and is greater than in a position to reply it, so let me use this as the beginning level for a tangential thought.
The actual query to ask is, I feel, not in regards to the US. Neither is it in regards to the Democrats. It’s in regards to the electoral techniques of the US and UK that seem unable to supply something a lot approaching a reliable politician lately. If they may we’d not have Biden, whose solely benefit is that he comes from a unique period, and Sunak, whose solely benefit is the insensitivity to opinion that excessive wealth offers.
In fact, what these supposed democracies have in frequent are three issues.
First is first-past-the-post electoral techniques, which very largely reduces electoral democracy to a selection between these in a position to progress by the murky, back-room shenanigans of two-party candidate choice processes. Most who achieve this know that when elected they’re both virtually assured a seat or are fully losing their time till a greater alternative comes alongside. However the expertise required for choice are a great distance faraway from what we want in our elected politicians. So we’re at all times given sub-optimal decisions.
Second, now we have a media that promotes stupidity. I’m not positive rather more rationalization is required. The entire concept of the fourth property holding a lot of democracy to account disappeared, way back.
Third, candidates should reside in an entirely synthetic goldfish bowl of scrutiny that few sane folks would want to endure. So, we get these with unusually thick skinned, or whose flaws destroy them, upon which destiny they’re keen to gamble when taking workplace. Neither enormously benefit us.
That is why we get the dire politicians that we do. To be blunt, nobody with any sense would need the job. And if you need it, you are most likely not match to have it.
Can we do higher than that? I feel so. However to try this now we have to interrupt the facility of the 2 celebration system, and which means the top of first-past-the-post. That is the place the corruption of the UK’s democracy and politics begins. All the things else flows from there.
I’m not saying any various will probably be a panacea. I’m saying it will likely be higher than what now we have obtained. And that may be a begin.
