'The percentage of people voting has been steadily dropping in Western "representative democracies" for some time now'
Which ones? Turnout was up in the last US and UK elections, and also in the last NZ election. Obama has brought tens of millions of new people into electoral politics. There's so much wishful thinking amongst some of you people - I heard this sort of thing from anarchists and also communists decades ago. I have been hearing that workers don't support Labour any more ever since the 1980s. Who keeps electig them, then? And why are these huge numbers of people supposedly turning against the system never on demonstrations and joining anarchists and similar groups? I'm not meaning to be sarcastic, just wondering whether you people are fooling yourselves.
Re: Organise! The Alternative To Voting!
Date Edited: 10 Aug 2008 12:29:17 AM
Which ones? Turnout was up in the last US and UK elections, and also in the last NZ election. Obama has brought tens of millions of new people into electoral politics. There's so much wishful thinking amongst some of you people - I heard this sort of thing from anarchists and also communists decades ago. I have been hearing that workers don't support Labour any more ever since the 1980s. Who keeps electig them, then? And why are these huge numbers of people supposedly turning against the system never on demonstrations and joining anarchists and similar groups? I'm not meaning to be sarcastic, just wondering whether you people are fooling yourselves.