[EM] Order

[Richard Lung]

Order

Politics should illuminate not obscure the nature of the vote. Many 
times repeated accusation, that a vote for a third-party candidate is “a 
wasted vote,” should alert to the fact that there is an order of choice 
for candidates.

Similarly, the practical politics of a strategic/tactical vote is an 
admission of a first choice or higher-order of choice, than such as two 
party candidates only, on offer. But one might have to largely waste 
ones vote on a second or lower choice to defeat a least choice.

For those voters, at least, the election is not an election at all, but 
a rejection. The two main parties campaigning against a wasted vote are 
in fact twisting the voters arm to hold a rejection or exclusion rather 
than an election, with a primitive election system (simple plurality) 
that is an election for some but an exclusion for others, blackmailing 
the electorate into two classes of positive and negative choice. And so 
denying the basic democratic principle of equality of choice.

If politics were interested in the truth, there would be an order of 
choice in the vote.

Regards,

Richard Lung.

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