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

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.

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.

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.