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What’s more chilling than Trump’s presidency? The fact that we use the same system that just handed him total control... If we want to protect democracy in Canada, we need proportional representation. (bsky.app)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/40140742

Fair Vote Canada on Bluesky

What’s more chilling than Trump’s presidency? The fact that we use the same system that just handed him total control.

First-past-the-post fuels a hyper-partisan two-party system.

If we want to protect democracy in Canada, we need proportional representation.

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[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Er, we don’t use the same system. Sure, we use FPTP, but we have no electoral college and we don’t elect a Prime Minister.

Proportional representation has its own issues.

That said, we do need to switch to it from FPTP, because while it has issues, it’s significantly better, and nobody has found a system that’s better than proportional.

[–] AlolanVulpix@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago

Of course the systems are different, however, the core of both Canada's and the US's electoral system is winner-take-all (e.g, FPTP).

The most "ideal" democracy would be a direct democracy, but that's impractical, so we use a representative democracy. PR is closer to the ideal democracy than any winner-take-all.