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You do realise that in USA, people mostly vote for republicans or democrats despite some hating them? Rest of world have multi-party governments. Many more cho
by Joakal 10y ago
You do realise that in USA, people mostly vote for republicans or democrats despite some hating them?
Rest of world have multi-party governments. Many more choices.
So much for an example that puts people on defensive instead of raising awareness of how distorted the electoral system in USA is.
- comex 10y agoAnd the US has primaries. Last year there were 17 Republicans all trying to win their party's nomination in a series of open votes; out of those, the eventual winner, Donald Trump, was perhaps the candidate least liked by the party establishment. If anything, the problem was too many candidates, combined with a first-past-the-post system. The majority of primary voters disliked Trump, but were split between several preferred candidates (who I group because they were far more similar to each other than to Trump). Trump got a certain segment of the vote all to himself.