voting for seats in the 2024 elections
A right-wing storm has hit Europe, if in Italy the center-right has already been in government for two years what happened in France and Germany was unexpected. The progressive world’s narrative in recent years on the environment, homosexual rights, the right to die and the erasure of history has had to confront reality: citizens have other problems.
All of Europe has become impoverished and future prospects are not the best. Between wars and the search for raw materials, our continent is in great difficulty, if it is true that Germany is recovering, it is also true that France is in worse shape than Italy.
Among the various analyzes released in recent days there is one on the increase in abstentions, a varied category of non-voting people. Some point out that the “party” of non-voters is that of the winners with around 50% in Italy. In presenting this hypothesis, several errors are made:
1. There is no such thing as abstentions, that is, there is no electorally organized system that encourages non-voting
2. The world of abstentions is varied, there are those who are disappointed, others who have not voted in forever, we find voters who do not feel represented by the parties. Then there are those who have multiple problems and are not interested in voting for the European elections and finally there are those who go to the seaside.
3. Some present the category of non-voters as an act of rebellion, even if it were and it isn’t, there’s no point in not voting. Representative democracy does not need a quorum to function and Massimo Fini was right in this with his excellent text “subjects”
I have never been a supporter of representative democracy and in some articles I have strongly contested it by presenting various solutions. What is certain is that abstention is more useful to the parties as they can better organize those who go to vote.
Let me explain better: let’s consider that elections are a game and therefore have their own rules, I can contest the rules but without playing that game I will never be able to win and therefore I will never be able to change them. I’ll be simpler: my friends play Risk, I don’t like it, if I watch from the outside and invite other people not to play without considering that you can always play at the table I will be an eternal loser. By playing and learning methodologies, tactics and strategies I will be able to win tomorrow and therefore propose another game.
The different option would be for those who stand by and watch to overturn the scoreboard/representative democracy, but as we know the abstentions are not organized and it does not occur to anyone to overturn the system of parliamentary democracy.
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