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That’s my point, yes. Our friend up there was quick to agree the governmental structures were put in place deliberately to prevent progress and to foster fascist autocracy. And that’s just bullshit. A very common bullshit notion in many corners of the Lemmy political threads.
It’s a form of defeatism that encourages non-action, it’s a significant hinderance to fixing these problems and it’s got the backing of many who consider themselves “leftist” and also foreign state actors.
The structure is sound. Fixing all this broken shit doesn;t mean destroying the structure of government. That’s just idiocy.
I guess I just see things like FPTP vs proportional representation as a structural issue, but again this is just an argument over the meaning of the word rather than us actually disagreeing over anything.
FPTP is a state issue. It is structural, but also one that is easier to change because it’s only at the state level. See the NYC mayoral race as an example of that being improved in one state.