Being in other countries & being asked why, even though Clinton got more votes, Trump won, really drives home how broken our "democracy" is.
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I'm seeing a lot of people in the US using "but it's bad in other countries too" as some kind of justification
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there's no justification to a shitty system, but amnesia about UK having first-past-the-post does no good.
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where's the amnesia?
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just lots of people not in the US talking about the electoral college as uniquely bizarre.
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it won a (small) plurality, but the people clearly didn't want CON.
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if, in the US, the greens got 25% and dems 30% and GOP 35%, a conservative government would be mega-WAT.
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that's a weird comparison as the UK got a coalition government as a result.
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this is why I advocate proportional systems like ranked choice or instant runoff
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A proportional system like MMP (not IRV) gives a pretty representative legislature, which is stable-ish 1/
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But the advantage to a system with a clear winner (e.g., UK) is the winner gets to keep their promises 2/
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& then voters see (a) what those promises lead to, or (b) that they don't believe their own policies 3/3
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I think 1992, 2000, 2008, and 2016 (trifecta years) have this effect and they don't last long.
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yeah, it assumes rational actors. Which is not in evidence.
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Not to mention Cameron has since stepped down leaving us with an unelected prime minister for the second time in 10 years
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UK does not directly vote for the PM, so arguable all PMs are "unelected" /
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