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When I was young, there was overlap between the D right wing and the R left wing. That overlap is gone, and I believe FPTP (and its corollary, the gerrymander)

When I was young, there was overlap between the D right wing and the R left wing. That overlap is gone, and I believe FPTP (and its corollary, the gerrymander) has much to do with it. Now I'm watching the train wreck safely, from a proportional representation polity.

defrost 2y ago
Have a cone while you wait: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=885265 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=885265 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCoRoqGz5so https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCoRoqGz5so
- 082349872349872 2y ago
  I'm not waiting so much as I am following Dijkstra's dictum that doctors are not expected to suffer themselves from the diseases* they diagnose. wrt https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=885514 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=885514 compare a previous swap: https://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/speeches/pierce.htm#:~:text=The%20democracy%20of,two%20drunken%20men%2e https://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/speeches/pierce... ! * I hear the DPRK would give their POWs chocolate bars if they wrote politically correct essays; similarly when I was young I used to get "gold stars" for writing essays about how obviously N=2 parties must be better than, not only N=1, but also N>=3. (thus far we've been able to avoid the major objection in that thread, by keeping a nearly continuous "grand coalition" government: proportional all the way up) [we're also helped because political boundaries are not arbitrarily redrawn, but tend to be based on centuries-to-millennia-old borders; I don't know what they do in the cities, but it's undoubtedly better than Austin TX: https://www.kvue.com/article/news/politics/new-district-maps-texas-comparison/269-5194e901-fd3b-452b-b3b1-86cbdfae6a6e https://www.kvue.com/article/news/politics/new-district-maps... ]
  - defrost 2y ago
    That singular penperson A. Lincoln writes a wonderful ancedote and should consider a career in politics. In the annals of N>=3, one of my favourite truple slogans: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Democrats#:~:text=At%20a%20Melbourne%20media%20conference,lived%20slogan%20for%20the%20Democrats https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Democrats#:~:text=A.... Third and fourth parties that can't spoil are a blessing in electoral systems, they force deals in the direction of real people and increase representation.

defrost 2y ago

Have a cone while you wait: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=885265 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=885265 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCoRoqGz5so https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCoRoqGz5so

082349872349872 2y ago
I'm not waiting so much as I am following Dijkstra's dictum that doctors are not expected to suffer themselves from the diseases* they diagnose. wrt https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=885514 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=885514 compare a previous swap: https://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/speeches/pierce.htm#:~:text=The%20democracy%20of,two%20drunken%20men%2e https://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/speeches/pierce... ! * I hear the DPRK would give their POWs chocolate bars if they wrote politically correct essays; similarly when I was young I used to get "gold stars" for writing essays about how obviously N=2 parties must be better than, not only N=1, but also N>=3. (thus far we've been able to avoid the major objection in that thread, by keeping a nearly continuous "grand coalition" government: proportional all the way up) [we're also helped because political boundaries are not arbitrarily redrawn, but tend to be based on centuries-to-millennia-old borders; I don't know what they do in the cities, but it's undoubtedly better than Austin TX: https://www.kvue.com/article/news/politics/new-district-maps-texas-comparison/269-5194e901-fd3b-452b-b3b1-86cbdfae6a6e https://www.kvue.com/article/news/politics/new-district-maps... ]
- defrost 2y ago
  That singular penperson A. Lincoln writes a wonderful ancedote and should consider a career in politics. In the annals of N>=3, one of my favourite truple slogans: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Democrats#:~:text=At%20a%20Melbourne%20media%20conference,lived%20slogan%20for%20the%20Democrats https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Democrats#:~:text=A.... Third and fourth parties that can't spoil are a blessing in electoral systems, they force deals in the direction of real people and increase representation.