Indeed, in fact what you are seeing is the power of the patriarchy

But the concern here is that the left are currently doing a great job of destroying this progress and huge wealth creation by advocating disastrous socialist policies whether is be "climate emergencys" diverting all our resources, flooding the west with immigrants or generally destroying the social fabric of western countries.

Transparency in all funding, not allowing monopolies to develope, encouraging the strict rule of law (accountability), banning of funded lobbying.

e.g. people should have gone to jail for the financial crisis and corporations and institutions should be criminally accountable at senior / board level.

Chronyism is also rampant outside of commerce. Notice how many talking heads appear on Sky from some foundation, think tank or research institute. All of these are getting funding from somewhere, often the government to push a political agenda.

Tactical voting, good or bad.

The Lib Dems, the Greens and Plaid whatever have announced they will not stand against each other.

How very democratic of them. What have they said to their voters? "are you okay with not being able to vote for the party of your choice but will vote for another that doesn't represent your views beyond stop Johnson."

I would say the same thing about a Tory Brexit pact but they haven't announced one yet. It just seems odd to me that parties bang on about democracy and then deny the voters the opportunity to have their say.

As a poll clerk I once had an irate woman complain that the Greens weren't on the voting slip and she blamed me and the government in that order. I had to politely explain that the Greens hadn't fielded a candidate so she should that that up with them.

The SNP are talking about a pact after the election so if you vote for them at least you know what you are getting.

Not sure I am a fan of tactical voting when one or more parties stand down.

One more point

Yep, there are definitely areas of the world that have gone backwards, mainly due to the advance of backward interpretations of religions and of course wars.

Organizations like the UN, which are mainly funded by capitalism have had a dramatic affect on world poverty and the rest of it since mass production and technological advances kicked in.

We can always think more can be done, however plenty have died trying to help the vulnerable in dangerous countries.

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I see your point. I have a "choice" of green labour or Tory. I probably wouldn't have voted any of them.

That said this may well be an election focussed wholly on one question. thus and as a unique one-off the pact makes sense.