• astutemural@midwest.social
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    20
    ·
    11 days ago

    Ah yes, because there are only two parties.

    This is entirely an emergent property of FPTP voting. Just do PPV or something, smh my head.

    • YTG123@sopuli.xyz
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      10 days ago

      Not necessarily of two-party systems or FPTP, I think this is a property of single-member districts in general. If you have multi-member districts (say 4 or 5 representatives per district) this becomes much less effective. Statewide PR solves this by removing districts, which for most people isn’t ideal.

    • merc@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      10 days ago

      Yeah, just get the winner of a 2-party FPTP system to change the rules that got them elected and instead put in place a PPV system that will ensure they never again get a majority. ezpz

      • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        edit-2
        9 days ago

        a PPV system that will ensure they never again get a majority.

        Are you saying the two party system doesn’t represent the people?

        • merc@sh.itjust.works
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          9 days ago

          No system completely represents the people, but sorting people into only A or B is worse than systems that allow more categories.