Conservative Party can run on proportional representation reform

[myata]

OK this SNC-Libs inflation platform makes things noticeably easier. Whatever blah they are offering us a free dental care and some more cookies. And that may just tip the balance for me, at least. No not like I'm going to "vote" - it's a principle, voting is for voting not a tribal dance show. But "supporting" OK I can do that. Like you have to "support" one or the other, that's the game right? If so the calculation is simple:

SNC-L: Entitled system forever, no change guaranteed + free cookies

Cons: Entitled, etc forever, different face on a sticker - and no cookies.

That was easy. And what do you think?

Edited June 26, 2022 by myata

[SpankyMcFarland]

On 6/24/2022 at 12:48 PM, ExFlyer said:

PR is anti vote. Anti democracy. You end up with too many fringe parties and no one that can properly govern. Coalitions do not work. Look at Italy.

Or look at Germany, Ireland, Scandinavia, New Zealand, Australia etc. We should get used to coalitions while the major parties are strong. It’s a form of government that encourages compromise and seeing the other guy’s point of view, something sorely needed these days. 

Edited June 29, 2022 by SpankyMcFarland

[myata]

52 minutes ago, SpankyMcFarland said:

It’s a form of government that encourages compromise and seeing the other guy’s point of view, something sorely needed these days.

Indeed. We can observe in real time growing polarization in almost all countries with FPTP. In the US, alarming loss of bipartisan institutions allowing checks and controls over governments: impeachment; Congress; violent riot; now Supreme Court. In Canada, authoritarian federal government out of all and any controls. This kind of binary political mentality just can't be good in a modern democracy. The twin duo always wins, the democracy looses.

[ExFlyer]

13 hours ago, SpankyMcFarland said:

Or look at Germany, Ireland, Scandinavia, New Zealand, Australia etc. We should get used to coalitions while the major parties are strong. It’s a form of government that encourages compromise and seeing the other guy’s point of view, something sorely needed these days. 

It is not a form of government that encourages compromise.

It is a form of government that is in constant turmoil and lives on daily squabble and leads to frequent elections and government stagnation..

[myata]

Sure there's a form of government that produces virtually no turmoil... for a while that is, and generous stagnation too. An easy guess, and yes we are heading that way, quite clearly.