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Originally Posted by pip08456
I always thought that in a general election you voted for the local MP you considered fit and proper of representing you.
I've never known of a general election to elect a leader of a party.
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What world do you live in pip?
FPTP is for the most part people voting for a party (influenced by its leader) regardless of the representative, e.g. you could put a dog up for vote in a labour safe seat area as the labour candidate and it would be voted in.
My dad a long time tory voter voted for blair in 1997 purely because he didnt like john major.
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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
The following is a list from the US Holocaust Museum titled "Early warnings signs of fascism".
It's a bit worrying to read this list and realise how many of these aspects Trump ticks or is close to. You only have to consider today's moves by Trump to allow church leaders to endorse politicians and to appreciate that it ticks the box of "Religion and government intertwined"
The list from the US Holocaust Museum reads:
- Powerful and continuing nationalism
- Disdain for human rights
- Identification of enemies as a unifying cause
- Supremacy of the military
- Rampant sexism
- Controlled mass media
- Obsession with national security
- Religion and government intertwined
- Corporate power protected
- Labor power suppressed
- Disdain for intellectuals and the arts
- Obsession with crime and punishment
- Rampant cronyism and corruption
- Fraudulent elections
http://metro.co.uk/2017/01/31/stark-...s-day-6417633/
James O'Brien does a good piece on it here. |
funny enough a fair chunk of that applies to the UK also
