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First past the post voting doesn't work
Nope, makes no difference. Australia and Japan both use alternative voting systems, and both still very conservative countries, australia carrying out its ongoing indigenous eviction under that system.
Bourgeois parliamentarism has proven to be the safest shell for capitalist rule.
We can recommend some books on what makes socialist democracy different from capitalist dictatorships.
FPtP isn’t the half of it. The US was formed of a bourgeois revolution to overthrow a still semi-feudal monarchy, and we’ve been a bourgeois-run state ever since, just as the bourgeois land-owning, slave-owning Founding Fathers intended. Our government was never meant to represent the working class; it almost never has and seldomer will, despite eventually allowing women and non-whites (who aren’t disenfranchised by the carceral system) to vote..
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy: