The politics of poverty has followed a fairly straight trajectory for the last 200 years - provide and concentrate power into the hands of the privileged few. The politics of poverty uses covert, subtle means to project a façade of accountability while making deals behind closed doors. The politics of poverty keeps the middle class fixated on each other while burying the silent majority behind a curtain of shame, bureaucracy, and suspicion. The politics of poverty squashes dissent with police brutality and injustice.
But this very same politics of poverty has recently been stood on its head by the newly founded Fair Choice Party of Canada. The FCP promotes the idea of scaling votes inversely to wealth so that poorer people get larger votes! By turning poverty into political power the FCP believes that the politics of poverty can stand for empowerment, pride, and responsibility.
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This vote-scaling in favor of the silent majority is a political resolution; an innovative, peaceful, and lasting solution which accommodates the needs of both the ruling elite and the underclass majority. We must all find a way to co-operate and co-exist if we are to survive as a species on this planet. The FCP is against neither wealth, capitalism, nor democracy. We are, however, for finding a balance! We are not trying to be the spokespeople for the silent majority, we want to give them a real and powerful voice through a weighted vote.
By concentrating political power into the hands of the poorer underclass every election, the politics of poverty can come to mean something quite opposite from what it does now. The politics of poverty will mean electing the right leaders; responsible government; accountability; less corruption; a cleaner environment; less crime, drugs and abuse; equal opportunity; a healthy working environment; no war; and lower taxes for all.
The Fair Choice Party's continual redistribution of power makes it so that people from all walks of life with all kinds of expectations can learn to live side-by-side without having to control each other. By turning poverty into political power, the FCP gives people the fair choice between participation (votes) and insulation (wealth), hopefully we can all learn to take responsibility for what we do and don't have.
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