A cunning new electoral system, not in use anywhere else in the world and clearly the fruit of Buchanan’s counsel, would permanently overrepresent the right-wing minority party to ensure “a system frozen by elite interests.”21 To seal the elite control, the constitution forbade union leaders from belonging to political parties and from “intervening in activities alien to their specific goals”—defined solely as negotiating wages and hours in their particular workplaces. It also barred advocating “class conflict” or “attack[ing] the family.” Anyone deemed “antifamily” or “Marxist” could be sent
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