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It's a nice sentiment but the two party system is dominant by design. It's a feature that always emerges from winner take all voting systems.
by mullingitover 12y ago
It's a nice sentiment but the two party system is dominant by design. It's a feature that always emerges from winner take all voting systems.
- xnull1guest 12y agoTime for a proportional representation clause.
- prawn 12y agoYou just need two-party preferred voting so that you can vote first for a niche representative if you wish and preference a major party. In Australia, for example, it allows parties outside the two majors to have some influence, which I think is healthy.
- vidarh 12y agoWithout proper proportional representation, a huge proportion people are still left with representation they actively disagree with.
- vidarh 12y agoWhile that is often the case, it is not necessarily the case. Look at France for a counter-example. The downside is that the French "solution" was/is for the parties to enter into extensive election alliances to prevent splitting their potential voters, so it's an ugly workaround for a broken system, and you still get horrible distortions but it still better represents the actual views of the electorate.