07-23-2016, 12:05 AM
(07-22-2016, 06:50 AM)Odin Wrote:(07-21-2016, 11:26 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: Could it be that Americans are so fed up with this system during a 4T that they will do what needs to be done, and become parliamentarians? With the other reforms along with it?
Enact a parliamentary system
Introduce proportional representation of parties in congress
Establish ranked-choice voting so your second choice counts
End gerrymandering
Take money out of politics
I oppose Proportional Representation because people just have to vote for the party and have no power to chose who the actual individual representing them is. It would make the hold of the party bosses even stronger than it is now. I do like ranked-choice voting, though.
I think in prop. rep you still vote for the person, but parties who do well get extra representatives. That's how I think it should work anyway. It's used in most democracies, which are also parliamentary. Our elected-king system is long-outdated. What difference does one vote for president out of millions make? We even set up a parliamentary system in our recent imperial colony Iraq, not our own system. Amazing, huh?
