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[+] -13 points 1 year ago (6 children)
  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago* (5 children)

    This is exactly what happens with democratic societies

    No. This is what happens when you have two sides, both too large to really represent anyone, battling for a sliver of majority using increasingly diverging views and then exercising as much power as they can before the roles flip again.

    In an actual democracy representatives of the people, with many differing views, sit down together and decide case by case on a solution that most can be happy with.

    Someone will always disagree with any decision when we live in a large society, but a functioning democracy is the closest thing we have ever come to making sure that as many as possible are happy (and more importantly get a say).

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Unfortunately exactly this outcome is the inevitable result of a FPTP voting system combined with political parties. The most stable arrangement of such a system is a two party system, and once it reaches that point the winning party becomes the one willing to take the most extreme position from the other party.

    The only way to fix this is to do away with FPTP and replace it with a proportional voting system that will allow for multiple political parties to be viable and encourage the major parties to seek moderate positions rather than extremes.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Absolutely agree! First past the post will always drift toward larger and less representative parties. Even proportional representation can have this tendency, but it is much more resilient.

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