Partly, yes, but it's more than just that. Let's use abortion as that was mentioned: the SCOTUS deciding that abortion should always be legal, with very few res

Partly, yes, but it's more than just that. Let's use abortion as that was mentioned: the SCOTUS deciding that abortion should always be legal, with very few restrictions, using a rather tortured and tenuous reading of the constitution (IMHO). Whatever you may think of the outcome, it's certainly not "consensus-building" in any meaningful way, and I fail to see how proportional representation would change anything here. If you compare this to European countries then "legalizing abortion" often meant passing a lot more nuanced legislation with a lot more compromise and process, which sometimes also took a lot longer. The result is that in most European countries there is no significant "repeal abortion legislation" movement, that even many Christian parties are not advocating for this (although some are), and that repealing this would be unthinkable in the foreseeable future. So I say the problems are deeper than just the electoral system, although that is part of it. Even some carefully nuanced compromise legislation widely supported by a majority of the population from both sides can be struck down by the SCOTUS as long as a small activist group takes an interest. Turns out you can't bully people in to agreeing with you, you can only bully them in to shutting up and resenting you. Who would have expected eh?