The recent UK polls are killing me, because despite the surge in labor, the fact that UKIPers are now voting Tory and their districts are first-past-the-post means that the Tories are likely going to win. (Labor, the libdems and the SNP together get >50% of the vote in some polls.)
raginrayguns: i was telilng some europeans that having > 3 parties was dumb but they werent buying it
It’s a good idea if you have an electoral system set up to support it properly. If we had a proper system we could have a Trump party separate from the republicans and a Bernie party separate from the dems. Then maybe people would be a little less insane because they’d have parties that represent them.
I would actually like for both the Bernie and Trump parties to exist, since they might actually do something about the trade balance and conditions for American workers, tbh. I wonder if they might have less regulatory capture, too, but I’d have to check that against foreign countries where multiple parties are the norm.
FPTP is basically the worst system for anything with more than 2 choices. there’s pro’s and cons of the other types (AV, instant runnoff, proportional etc.) among each other, but they’re pretty much all better than FPTP.
It’s always bothered me, TBH, and then I learned there are other voting methods that could break it and haven’t been the same since. I would like seven parties of incompetent politicians to vote for, please, so I can pick the flavor of stupidity that most closely matches my own.