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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.

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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.
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