Yesterday we posted a link to a piece on the Electoral Reform Society’s calculation that 22 million votes at the recent general election were irrelevant, because of the dreadful ‘first past the post’ system. V comments:
The problem with democracy is basically that groups of people who fundamentally disagree with a state’s policies cannot secede from that state. As well as that, democratically elected politicians have limited incentive for good governance as they know they will not be around forever and so there is always the temptation to spend some of the state’s capital on rewarding their supporters, in other words it encourages bad husbandry and poor governance.
In the UK’s case (and in western Europe generally) democracies are in thrall to certain favoured groups such as feminists, LGBTQ, and environmentalists. This phenomenon bears a clear relationship to the collapse of traditional (sexual) morality, and traditional religion in general.
Democracies by their nature encourage collectivist solutions, and are merely a less drastic form of totalitarianism than communism or fascism.
One can see this in the massive growth of state spending since 1900. One could say the triumph of democracy in its modern form began in 1918 with Woodrow Wilson’s declaration that he wanted to make the world safe for democracy, and in doing so, broke up the essentially benign Austro-Hungarian Empire, symbolising the death of the monarchical principle. Democracies are now in a demonstrable state of decadence and are coming to their end.
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Justice for Men & Boys 
On the other hand, the first past the post system decreases the likelihood of extreme parties coming into power. The main problem, I think, is the lack of anti-PC candidates trying to become an MP for one of the two major parties. Hopefully this will change given recent online efforts.
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Interesting. What ‘online efforts’ are you referring to? Saunders’ chilling announcement yesterday, on which the Government has not commented, makes non-PC candidates less likely than ever, doesn’t it?
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I’m referring to the efforts of antifeminists online (such as Mike, Karen Straughan, Janice Fiamengo etc etc) as well as sympathetic and very popular commentators such as Milo Yiannopoulos. I believe they have been very successful in turning young people away from feminism. I’m at university now and I found out recently that at least 4 of my close friends at school were already anti-feminist and it wasn’t due to me since I never spoke to them about it. So this should start to filter through into politics now (as Breitbart says “politics is downstream from culture”).
Also look at Trump’s win in the US; though their political system is slightly more open to change since anybody rich enough can run. Anyway, I have absolute faith in the British people to make a mockery of the hate speech laws and deliver a new generation of anti-PC Conservative politicians. Labour is doomed though,I think.
I should add though that Labour may be doomed in terms of falling to social justice but I can see them winning one or two elections, depending on how long it takes the Conservative party to reform.
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