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Do you truly believe it would be preferable, if one party consistently wins 51% of the vote, and the other wins 49%, to have one party permanently in power? Th
by leereeves 2y ago
Do you truly believe it would be preferable, if one party consistently wins 51% of the vote, and the other wins 49%, to have one party permanently in power?
That (51% of votes translating into 100% of power) is certainly not fair either.
One thing the current system does surprising well is ensure that power remains divided over the long term.
- azemetre 2y agoOnly if you define power as the length of a single human lifespan and not something that continues on when you exit our plane of existence. The US has gone through dozens of major political and regional political parties over the last 200 years. Acting like this is ossified is just demonstrably false. It sounds like you are more upset about the first-past-the-post voting system and that I agree with you.
- throwaway48476 2y agoFirst past the post creates the two party system. The multi party parliamentary systems give far more power to the party leader to the extent that all tweets by liberal party members in Canada have to be approved by the leaders office. So instead of a MP that represents a constituency it ends up with only ~5 leaders that are allowed independent opinions.