Being in other countries & being asked why, even though Clinton got more votes, Trump won, really drives home how broken our "democracy" is.
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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I didn't get that from
@sarah_edo's tweet. Also, in the screenshot you showed, CON won the popular vote too. -
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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anyway, my point is this "but bad things have happened elsewhere" tact only serves to normalise the bad things
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I could say the same about UK first-past-the-post elections.
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And the multi-party setup in the UK shows that >2 parties is also not a panacea.
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