What other major democracy outside the US has first-past-the-post baked into the constitution? US nat'l elections are structural duopolies.https://twitter.com/alexburnsNYT/status/781502758239211520 …
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take UKIP; they had +12% of the vote but only had 1 MP among 650. Not that I would prefer more UKIP MPs but very undemocratic.
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resulting in parties abusing localities (class, religion, etc) be more represented than more geographically diverse (liberals?) ones
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UK disadvantages smaller parties. US electoral system basically funnels everything into a duopoly, since no way to grow slowly.
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