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Socialism is not even radical (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 hours ago

Why yes, let perfect be the enemy of good.

While yes, Australia's voting system still is not great (single member electorates), and inequality is still bad, and we're capitalist like the US, it's sure as hell no where near as bad here, and I would argue, partially due to our better elections (it's not even close).

We have pretty good worker protections, healthcare that's not ridiculously expensive (though, we're working on it...), and overall much better social programs.

I would be surprised if our voting system had nothing to do with that.

FPTP is trash, it's basically only gets bette for any other system (hyperbole, but not by much).