| Eagle367 said: This is why first past the post sucks and ranked choice needs to applied. That and proportional voting. One cool idea was actually sharing seats of districts based on minimum voting threshold and proportion of votes gotten. Though that becomes complicated. It'd be like a mini council for every seat to deliberate and decide on issues. So if one gets 40% and two other get 30% each of a seat, the three together decide how they will vote for each measure in the assembly. It is a fair bit competitive but way more representative. Ranked choice is a must though. |
The issue is how do you reform a system where those who control said system greatly benefit from it?
It used to be the case that many U.S states did have multi-membered districts in the form of block voting.
This was banned because it was used to discriminate against black voters in the south.
Before the Jacksonian period, many states also had non-plurality multi-membered districts, but FPTP was consolidated and the two-party system created during the late 1820's and early 1830's.
Personally I think we should go more radical than representative government. Liquid democracy should be the norm in developed countries, with federalism used to apply it to different scopes of interest. This is how the CNT-FAI managed the political-economy of Catalonia and parts of Aragon during the Spanish revolution.
