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Democracy? The issue is that we have too many people per representative. You representative doesn't need to care about you, they need to care about donors for
by imNotTheProb 5y ago
Democracy?
The issue is that we have too many people per representative.
You representative doesn't need to care about you, they need to care about donors for mass media.
I see parallels in tech as well. Some companies are openly anti consumer but run massive advertising/brainwashing campaigns. One will go as far as saying 'privacy' but turn around and give your information to the US government and China.
- lotsofpulp 5y agoFirst past the post voting systems are also a problem, as you are always voting for the lesser evil.
- dragonwriter 5y agoFPTP isn’t “also” a problem, it (and more broadly the absence of proportionality in the electoral system) is the empirically verifiable problem. (See, e.g., Lijphardt’s Patterns of Democracy.) Representation ratio is much discussed, but unlIke FPTP there's not really support in comparative study of democracies for it being a source of adverse results (poor satisfaction, reduce dimensionality of the policy option space, etc.) Much as the accuracy of sampling is, despite common intuition to the contrary, dependent on the absolute, not relative, size of the sample, representation ratio probably doesn't practically matter much once the absolute size of the representative body gets past a certain point (and beyond a certain absolute size, logistics make size increases adverse independent of ratio.)