My preferred method is to weight votes according to age: voters below, say, 30 would receive a more heavily weighted vote, voters 30 to 60 would get a less weighted vote, and those over 60 would retain their current single vote. For argument’s sake, you could multiply the vote of under-30s by 1.3 and that of 30- to 60-year-olds by 1.1. People’s ballot papers could be distinguished by colour – under-30s get blue, 30s to 60s green and oldies red – to make counting easier on election night.
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considering the emphasised text extracted from the above passage what do you think the author’s stance on the article is?
Why do you think she used those terms? Are they at odds with her opinion or reenforcing it?
Consider the way the author has described the current system as a “bourgeois half-measure” contrasted with “actual democracy” what do you think the author imagines instead? Where else has similar language been used in relation to critiques of European representative democracy?
Thanks for the flashback to high school