• Fedizen@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    46
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    edit-2
    7 months ago

    *electoral system

    Because of FPTP and the Winner Take All Electoral College, there is a lot of political pressure to only have 2 parties. In a better system (proportional, ranked choice, etc) it wouldn’t break with more than two parties. In fact just reforming the electoral college to be proportional would likely allow 3 parties to exist.

    If you look at history the last time there was a viable 3rd party it possibly initiated the civil war by allowing an anti slavery viewpoint to exist (which is good, but if we’d had a better voting system it would have happened earlier and reduced a lot of suffering)

    • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      17
      arrow-down
      16
      ·
      7 months ago

      And if a frog had wings he wouldn’t bump his ass when he hopped.

      We have FPTP, and we’ll have it until I’m cold and dead in the ground.

        • daltotron@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          11
          ·
          7 months ago

          alaska also has some kind of UBI because of their oil stuff, I’m not sure they slot as easily into political partisanship as most other states

        • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          8
          ·
          7 months ago

          Burlington VT also switched off FPTP… and then we fucking back slid because “it’s too confusing!”

          I think it’s highly unlikely we get off FPTP at a national level.