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Sorry, forgot to reply. I didn't read it like that. I don't think his argument depends on claiming that majorities voted for 'bad economics'. I obviously haven't read the book yet (are you on it, Will?), but I expect that would be spelled out more in it. It's long been known that much of the potential left-wing electorate doesn't turn out (and the Tories are presently trying to gerrymander and adopt US-style voter suppression tactics with 'Voter ID'), in an electoral system that, as you say, is additionally biased towards vested interests.
The article is obviously focused most on the UK and US, but you have similar developments in countries like Germany, where despite the myths of a strong economy, millions of people live in poverty. Germany has PR.
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Seeing how much the media has come to define conversations in modern society, and how it has been entirely captured by the rich status quo, this quote reeks of punching downwards.
Also, it implies that "maybe if just a few more people had been engaged in politics things might be different", which again in a FTP system which heavily favours the status quo is kinda misleading. Thatcher won her first election with less votes than Labour/Liberals combined, so even then the majority was not supporting a rise in inequality