Ms Guinner's work is not nonsense but that is irrelevant since I am not appealing to her obvious good sense but to the nonsense that we have a democracy.quote:Originally posted by Billy Ram Balgobin:
He is going to bring that Lani Guinner's bullshit about tyranny of the majority. Democracy is not perfect but it what people are hungry for all over the world. The ARAB spring came about as a result people being forced to live under regimes that refuses to allow free elections.
It is a foregone conclusion that the the Westminster system functions by optimizing simple majorities to strong administrative governments. That works well in societies where the population is fairly homogeneous and the disputes are methodological rather than on ethnic grounds as ours.
A single constituency closed list electoral system aggravates this since it means the majority can be gleaned in essentially single ethnic domains with patronage and nepotism presenting the false view that a multiethnic perspective won the day. Add to that a party system that has no primaries or formal system for electing leaders and you have a monoculture where party allegiance and kith and kin dominance creates oligarchies of party cabal who are king makers and select the president.
The result is we have jagdeos and ramotars who no electorate vetted placed before the nation to be elected government on a simple majority what is ethnic based. That is undemocratic and the last 4 decades have seen every state with our bifurcated racial demographics cascade into tyranny and despotism and eventually into adversarial ethnic conflict.