What would be the best option to get more parties involved/elected in the USA?

[the2real4mafol]

Adinnieken said:

the2real4mafol said:

 

You need a proportional system like the greek system, which has a 300 seat house, 250 of which are elected and the other 50 are awarded to the leading party, in a hope to avoid to coalitions (even though the US system acts like a coalition anyway)

In this system, a party needs at least 3% to get a seat in parliament. Need 151 for a majority. To decide, the number of seats for each party, they divide the 250 by the total percentage of votes for each party. I wish, a system like this existed in Britain.

As you can see 7 parties got seats

Official parties

    New Democracy (ND) 129

    Syriza Unionist Social Front (SYRIZA) 71

    Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) 33

    Independent Greeks (ANEL) 20

    Golden Dawn (this is the nazi pary of greece!) (XA) 18            

    Democratic Left (DIMAR)   17

Communist Party of Greece (KKE) 14

 

And thus my point is proved!  Such a system of government absolutely, positively, without any question of doubt does not work!  Talk about a country that is so fucked up right now politically as well as financially, and you have one solid bit of evidence as to why.  Rule by committee doesn't work.  Anyone who has worked in the corporate world at a business level (not a your local McDonald's franchise or Seven Eleven) can speak of the woe that is "rule by committee".  When everyone has a voice and no one can agree enough to make a reasonably intelligent decision, so no one does anything or they do the wrong thing for all the wrong reasons. 

There is nothing like being in a committee, needing consensus to move forward and having one idiot in a corner spouting off random bullshit that has no relevance to the actual issue but demanding it be acknowledged and acted upon in order for consensus.  And that is exactly what you'd have in a such a system of government.

That's not why they are fucked up, they are fucked up because of there mismanagement  of their budget. And i'm sure their political system is no more of a deadlock than the USA's. If the coalition can agree on things, much can be done. I guess Greece was a bad example. Their is a similiar political system in the Northern Irish Assembly (a region split between unionists and nationalists, Protestants and Catholics), which was so sucessful it ended the Northern Irish troubles, as everyone got represented. Look it up, if you want to find how it works