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What you say may or may not have a certain level of truth to it. But here's the bottom line:Okay, to review, PR means you can't buy success so easily.
Everything has to be done on a national level, so throwing a small amount of money at certain seats, doesn't exist with PR, you have to be able to appeal to people at that national level.
What does this mean for politicians? Well, individuals can't get rich for standing in a certain seat. They have to stand for a political party and do well within that party. That party then has to do well, and the money goes to the party, rather than the individual. Meaning it's less profitable for politicians.
This means those who are most likely to go into politics for the money, and spout crap, will struggle. Unless they make their own party and spout the crap, but people will be less willing to vote for it because they have more choice.
More choice means politicians have to care more what the voters thing. It's not like you have a Rep v. Dem and it depends on what sort of Rep and what sort of Dem you have and then they fight it out on a local level.
Also, take the Reps, a person who is very strong right wing will always vote Rep, because otherwise the Dems will win. Negative voting.
With PR they might vote Rep or they might vote for a party that's similar but stands on different policies.
In Germany the AfD took loads of CDU/CSU (equivalent of the Reps) votes, so the CDU/CSU needs to take a good long look at itself and change its views to be more in tune with the people.
In the US they just advertise with loads of money and expect people to vote for whatever crap they hand out.
Politicians change with PR. They have to be in tune with the votes.
The AfD in Germany appeared in 2013, had gained 12.6% of the votes by 2017. That's a HUGE RISE, the CDU/CSU were absolutely shitting themselves.
In the UK UKIP appeared in the early 1990s, by 2015 they'd gained 12.6% of the vote. But instead of 90 seats like the AfD, they had one. The Tories didn't really need to care much. They simply had a Brexit vote (which many of them wanted anyway) and carried on destroying the UK.
Quote from Rothschild (Founder of the Rothschild Banking Cartel):
Mayer Amschel Rothschild, founder of the Rothschild international Banking Dynasty, once said, "Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes the laws."
Currently, every nation on earth is beholden to the Rothschild Banking family or one of it's affiliates. So it doesn't matter what form of government a nation adopts ... if they're owned by the bank, they're controlled by the bank.