06-21-2018, 02:45 PM
(This post was last modified: 06-21-2018, 02:45 PM by danbrotherston.)
For the life of me, I cannot understand why so many people are opposed to more proportionality in our electoral system.
Why should the person who voted for Ford get infinitely more say in our governance than I, who didn't? What makes them so special.
As for functioning systems, yes, you end up with many smaller parties, that seems to work well in most places. People are diverse, there are many more viewpoints than three (or really two) which *should* be represented. Moreover, places with these types of electoral systems have been not less stable than we have, and have far less swings in policy. We're hardly one to speak about extreme views in our government, the US also doesn't have proportional representation, and they're the King of not being able to speak about extremism.
Plenty of countries have proven PR works well, our system results in a relatively dictatorial government not having to care about the other constituents, and getting completely reversed every election. How that is better than cooperation and slow sober thought, I have no idea.
Why should the person who voted for Ford get infinitely more say in our governance than I, who didn't? What makes them so special.
As for functioning systems, yes, you end up with many smaller parties, that seems to work well in most places. People are diverse, there are many more viewpoints than three (or really two) which *should* be represented. Moreover, places with these types of electoral systems have been not less stable than we have, and have far less swings in policy. We're hardly one to speak about extreme views in our government, the US also doesn't have proportional representation, and they're the King of not being able to speak about extremism.
Plenty of countries have proven PR works well, our system results in a relatively dictatorial government not having to care about the other constituents, and getting completely reversed every election. How that is better than cooperation and slow sober thought, I have no idea.