I disagree. I see it as a useful step - because reining in the press, controlling the lobbying system, etc. are all controlled by politicians, and I believe that the voting system makes it more likely that we get bad ones.
Which doesn't mean that we won't see reform without that - we clearly have seen all sorts of reforms while using FPTP - and will presumably continue to do so. And it doesn't make voting reform my number 1 wish - it just makes it something that's important to me - because I want to see higher engagement with politics, and more people making demands of the political system.
Because we have democracy because people have a tacit agreement that it's better to go along with the majority decision than it is to shoot the people in charge and take over, and if we discourage enough people from engaging then eventually the latter route starts to look very appealing to them.
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Date: 2013-10-29 07:52 pm (UTC)Which doesn't mean that we won't see reform without that - we clearly have seen all sorts of reforms while using FPTP - and will presumably continue to do so. And it doesn't make voting reform my number 1 wish - it just makes it something that's important to me - because I want to see higher engagement with politics, and more people making demands of the political system.
Because we have democracy because people have a tacit agreement that it's better to go along with the majority decision than it is to shoot the people in charge and take over, and if we discourage enough people from engaging then eventually the latter route starts to look very appealing to them.