Yep.. That's correct. It was a GREAT idea when HE endorsed it in 2014...
You know what make ME happy? Watching you tribal partisan warriors destroy your parties. THIS is what the Big Middle is celebrating right now. Watching the hypocrisy mount up and the bodies fall....
OOPS! Cryin' Chuck Schumer Called For His Own Military Parade in 2014
Watch the vid before you comment..
Problem is the parties still remain, it's the country that goes downhill.
The parties ARE the tyranny and the problem. They've managed to take a great idea like a Representative govt and make it speak with ONLY TWO VOICES.. And like some have said in this thread, that just leads to shouting and the type of finger pointing that's WORSE than my "multi-finger pointing" Avie..
That's why I support Proportional Representation.
It would strip the two powers of their massive amounts of power, and give them majorities only in coalition with other parties. It would also give the people a voice that they simply don't have right now.
Don't NEED proportional rep.. You NEED multiple voices. Not even a majority of them. Because that will start to dismantle the extra Constitutional "rules" of the Congress that MAKE IT a 2 party institution..
Just 6 or true Indies in Congress would open things up remarkably. Especially in tight votes. Which is all we HAVE these days. So that discussions about simple shit like a more vigorous military display on appropriate days doesn't turn into a dogmatic feud and soap-boxing.
Well, the US has FPTP and has two parties in the Senate, the same two parties in the House, one of those parties in the White House and those two parties in the Supreme Court.
That means FPTP doesn't lead to multiple voices. It leads to two.
The Germans had an election last September, they have six parties in parliament.
Had they done only FPTP the result would have looked like this:
CDU/CSU 231 seats. 77%
SPD 59 seats. 20%
AfD 3 seats 1%
Die Linke 5 seats 1.6%
The Greens 1 seat. 0.3%
Actually the reality is the AfD and die Linke would probably have got nothing.
With Proportional Representation it was different.
CDU/CSU 246 seats. 34.7%
SPD 153 seats. 21.5%
AfD 94 seats. 13.25%
FDP 80 seats. 11.3%
Die Linke 69 seats. 9.7%
The Greens 67 seats. 9.4%
Yes, massive difference.
10.7% of the people wanted the FDP in government. Had it been FPTP their voice would have been lost totally.
12.6% wanted the AfD in power, 11.6% of this voice would have been lost with FPTP.
9.2% of people wanted die Linke in power, 7.6% of this voice would have been lost.
8.9% of the people wanted the Greens in power. 8.6% of this voice would have been lost.
That there, is 38.5% of the voters who would have had their voice curtailed under FPTP.
Think how many people lose their voice in the US.
