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You know what solves this? A multi party political system where people have to compromise to form a functional government. This First Past the Post nonsense is
by SOLAR_FIELDS 1y ago
You know what solves this? A multi party political system where people have to compromise to form a functional government. This First Past the Post nonsense is really the root of the US current situation
- dragonwriter 1y agoNote that people have to compromise in FPTP, too, the difference is that in a multiparty system compromises across the middle after an election are more normal, in FPTP, compromises within each of two sides, each seeking to carve out an electoral plurality and dependent on the most committed forces on their “side” of the middle, are functionally necessary. (Also, on FPTP, alienating a voter from the opposing coalition from voting entirely is half as good as winning a vote, whereas alienating voters is much less effective in a multiparty system.)