The defeat of democracy

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立憲民主党は福田小沢の大連立構想のときからずっとそうなんだけど、執行部がポンコツなんだよなぁ…謎のプライド発揮して、墓穴を掘るっていう。自己の拡張ができずに失敗した良い例だよな。あのとき大連立してたら、本当の意味での二大政党になれてたかもしれないとは思うよ。たらればだけどね。そりゃ自民党も余裕すぎて暴走するわ。

小選挙区制が二大政党による政権交代を目指して導入されたのであればあるほど、野党第一党の重要性が高いということになるのだが、立憲民主党にはその気がないんだよな。政権奪取する方は、徹底的な血の入れ替えをやらないとダメだと思うよ。

それかもう選挙システムを新しく作るかなんだけど
自民党があえて不利になるような条件を飲むはずもなし
現実的には今のシステムで戦うしかないのだと思うが

政策が大事って言う割にはどこも大したこと言ってないし、実現する気があるかどうかもわからないと言う悲惨な状況

それは大連立拒否後の政権交代時に完全に露呈してしまったんだ。
あれほど大事にしてた風だった理念など、民主党は大して持ち合わせていなかったと言うことが。
つまりただの中身のないプライドだったと言うことだ。
あの当時の執行部が潔く引退しない限り、暴力的な自民党支配は続くってことなんだ。

そして何より、政権交代がなされないと最も腐敗するのは、選挙のない官僚組織だと言われている。

ここを無視することはできない。

つまり、民主主義の敗北なんだ。

The Constitutional Democratic Party has been like this ever since the Fukuda–Ozawa grand coalition proposal. The leadership is useless — they show this strange pride and end up digging their own grave. It’s a perfect example of failing because they couldn’t expand themselves. If they had agreed to that grand coalition back then, they might have actually become one of the two major parties in a real sense. It’s a “what if,” but still. Of course the LDP ends up getting so comfortable that they start running wild.

If the single-member district system was introduced with the aim of establishing a two-party system where administrations can actually change, then the role of the largest opposition party becomes even more important — but the Constitutional Democrats clearly have no intention of doing that. If they actually want to take power, they need a complete purge and replacement at the top.

Otherwise, they’d have to create a whole new election system — but there’s no way the LDP would ever accept rules that put them at a disadvantage. Realistically, we have to fight within the current system.

Everyone keeps saying “policy is what matters,” but none of the parties are saying anything substantial, and you can’t even tell if they have any intention of actually implementing anything — it’s pathetic.

This all became painfully obvious during the change of government after they refused the grand coalition. All that “principle” they acted like they valued so much — the Democratic Party never really possessed it in the first place. It was nothing more than empty pride. Unless the leadership from that era steps aside gracefully, the violent LDP dominance will continue.

And above all, it’s said that the organization that becomes most corrupt when there is no change of administration is the bureaucracy — the part of the system that never faces elections.

We cannot ignore this.

In other words — this is the defeat of democracy.

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