A system that expects parties to listen, compromise and find common ground produces calmer politics and better decisions.
Canada can have that too with proportional representation. We just have to choose it.
Proportional representation is great. In australia we use it for one house of parliament with preferential voting for the other. It allows a wider range of popular opinion to be reflected than even preferential.
But both italy and israel have proportional representation, so let’s not think that it magically turns you into a scandanavian social democracy.
Ah, yes, the great democratic system of Australia, in which if you elect a government too far to the left, you get a coup. Where criticizing a politician on social media gets your home firebombed
Technically Finland is not part of Scandinavia.
Democracy in Australia is a joke. Since federation in 1901, it’s been a variation of the same two parties in power, with the smallest of Greens blip. We have no diversity of ideas represented in our country, only LibLab neoliberalism.
The only real democratic system is direct democracy.
both italy and israel have proportional representation
Italy uses a parallel system and Israel has serious problems with their society.
Iceland, Norway, Ireland and Austria use proportional representation and they’re very successful stable democracies.
We’ve had minority governments before. We have one now.
Usually it’s when the best things happen for us.
It’s hard to use the successes of one system to promote another, though, as all of the good things we got from our minority government happened before prop rep.
Right now there’s not calm politics and better decisions because the capitalists didn’t need to compromise and find common ground, they just built a coalition with their fascist friends. It’s also a broken system
Iceland under proportional representation with the highest percentage of unions says otherwise.
Iceland can’t even save it’s own language. They are a tiny tiny nation that can’t be a model for influential nations that need a change in a sane direction
Ah yes let’s ignore all their successes because no country is perfect.
can’t be a model for influential nations that need a change in a sane direction
Because they should model their countries on widespread corruption and stupid wars instead. Are you kidding me?
I don’t know how Iceland has fixed the issue I mentioned with Finland
Its all well and good until Winston Peters comes along. (Known as the king maker in NZ as he has gotten do decide the outcome of multiple elections)
Definitely better than the two party system though.
If people want bad parties to get elected they will get them no matter the electoral system.
Truth. It’s unfortunate that the 8% that voted for Act is getting way more input than the other 92% though
cool, now do it without exploiting the third world.
No, but you see, we have to listen to the prop exploitation parties and reach a middle ground with them! /s
Yes, the famous big time colonizer Finland…
Like, not doing trade with them, not buying anything from there, what should stop
based supporter of developing countries who uses imperialist terminology to described them
not a “supporter”. resident.
not a need to be pedantic about it.
hope your country develops well 🙂
me too. that sadly won’t be allowed to happen until the empire falls
