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When your job as a politician is to gather as much power and donations as possible to be re-elected, then they are not really doing the job their constituents r
by _spduchamp 5y ago
When your job as a politician is to gather as much power and donations as possible to be re-elected, then they are not really doing the job their constituents require of them. This is the dominate flaw of first-past-the-post elections which leads to policy lurch and climate stalling. This is why, here in Canada, I advocate for electoral reform, specifically a Citizens' Assembly on Electoral Reform. Such a process will most likely result in a Proportional Representational government, and thus change the focus from elections to actual policy work, and a shift toward evidence-based policy.
Electoral reform is how we debug the system.
I just hope we can make this happen in time.
- barbazoo 5y agoWe tried in BC multiple times and it's not what people want unfortunately.
- _spduchamp 5y agoBC raised the bar to 60% for the referendum. It was kinda rigged for failure, and deeply disappointing. (Lost with 58% of vote) I don't see how things can get any better in Canada without electoral reform, so I don't give up on it. There is a Local Choice movement to get local municipal to chose how they want elections, eg ranked ballot, and this may have impact on future pushes for reform provincially and federally. The PROC committee did pass a motion recently to examine a Citizen Assembly on Electoral Reform, and it had support form all the parties. Unfortunately that committee may dissolve due to a federal election. (An attempted to grab 100% of the power with 40% support. Ugh.)