Effects of electoralism: Food insecurity

Posted on July 6, 2024 by Yoram Gat

A Gallup poll finds that the inability to afford food is common within Western nations.

Effects of electoralism is a new category of posts is that is devoted to documenting the social and political effects of the elections-based system of government. The aim is to generate a steady stream of up-to-date items that can be easily referred to in order to highlight the fact that the system is inherently anti-democratic. Discussion of the persistent failure of the system to serve those ruled under it is studiously avoided not only by those who overtly promote the status quo but also by many supposed reformers who express concern about people losing confidence in the system, but rarely discuss the underlying causes for this loss of confidence.

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Roger Knights, on July 6, 2024 at 6:05 am said:

There’s talk of giving everyone a universal basic income. How about handing out part of it in the form of “food stamps”, as they are called in America?

Also included should be free home delivery, to ease the burden of shopping and transporting on persons who lack a car or who live in a “food desert”.

Restaurants should be encouraged to make their end-of-day leftovers available too—that stuff shouldn’t go to waste.

As long as we’re at it, let’s hand out Instant Pots to those who lack them, to make it easy to prepare meals from healthy ingredients. What the heck, let’s throw in an air fryer too, and a stick blender. And a microwave oven, for the few who lack one.

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Anonymous, on July 6, 2024 at 8:44 am said:

The effects of electoralism – I like that as a focus and will use it myself.

Thanks Yoram.

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keithsutherland, on July 6, 2024 at 9:54 am said:

So, “electoralism” is the cause of food poverty in both the USA (26%) and Japan (8%). That’s a pretty wide variance and where is the evidence for causality? Food poverty (and famine) is widespread in many non-democratic countries and it would be good to have some concrete metrics (obesity, mortality etc) rather than relying on survey data. What was the last recorded peacetime famine in a Western electoral democracy?

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