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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Replying to @sarah_edo
These results don't look like "conservative government" to me. Lots of countries have weird first-past-the-post systems. :(pic.twitter.com/9pvVXrQR1b
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Replying to @wycats @sarah_edo
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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Replying to @jaffathecake @sarah_edo
there's no justification to a shitty system, but amnesia about UK having first-past-the-post does no good.
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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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