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Re:Gerrymandering and a cure for it – the shortest splitline... by Turing_Machine on Wednesday September 30, 2015 @01:47AM (#10302026)
"The stalemate of the past two terms in the US doesn't say much for winner-takes-all."

You think it's bad with two parties who can't agree on anything? Try twenty parties who can't agree on anything.

"Ah, you're just trolling."

No, I certainly am not trolling. The multitude of parties in the Weimar Republic, which could not form an effective government for two entire election cycles, were directly responsible for Hitler's rise to power.

Re:Gerrymandering and a cure for it – the shortest splitline... by vacri on Wednesday September 30, 2015 @01:58AM (#10302052)
> Try twenty parties who can't agree on anything.

What, multipolar politics, like modern Germany or Sweden or Australia? Wealthy, socially progressive countries with high standards of living?

You're just spreading FUD. PR was one of a great many factors involved in the rise of Hitler, but keep in mind that the US system also let a president get elected that didn't win the popular vote, who then went on to destroy a foreign country to drum up domestic political support. Literally hundreds of thousands of people died in Iraq to make Bush more popular in the US, despite Iraq having nothing to do with threats to the US. But it would be stupid to say that the US electoral system was directly responsible for the Iraqi bloodbath.

And as I say in the other comment, there are a shitload of countries using PR that aren't fascists.

Re:Gerrymandering and a cure for it – the shortest splitline... by Turing_Machine on Wednesday September 30, 2015 @09:35AM (#10303799)
"What, multipolar politics, like modern Germany"

Modern Germany does not have PR. For good reason.

" PR was one of a great many factors involved in the rise of Hitler, but keep in mind that the US system also let a president get elected that didn't win the popular vote"

The U.S. President has never been elected by popular vote. Again, for good reason. Feature, not bug.

Re:Gerrymandering and a cure for it – the shortest splitline... by dragonwriter on Wednesday September 30, 2015 @11:26AM (#10304636)
Modern Germany hasPR via a mixed member proportional (MMP) system -- which, IIRC, was a German innovation when introduced; it doesn't have straight party-list PR, but then the more proportional system for the US proposed upthread isn't party-list PR, either. Proportionality is a (really, continuous valued, not binary) outcome, there are a number of systems for achieving it to a greater or lesser extent.