• cynar@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    America has a right wing party, and a party of hyper right wing nutcases.

    Unfortunately it’s a flaw in FPTP voting systems. The biggest thing that would help (in any country with FPTP) would be to move to almost any other sort of voting. Ranked choice would be the least disruptive, in the short term, but still allow for long term corrections to function.

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      5 months ago

      Yeah, RCV or STV voting would immediately solve a lot of our social and political problems, by forcing politicians to be cooperative and constructive rather than destructive and adversarial.

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        5 months ago

        It also allows you to vote for who you really want, rather than against the people you really DON’T want.

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        5 months ago

        There are a few variants. Any are a lot better than FPTP. Approval could get difficult to tally up. As well as educating people in it. It’s also better to ultimately have 1 person, 1 vote. If you could split your vote, the system collapsed back down to effectively FPTP.