Re:EPA Science Under Scrutiny by Trump Political Staff
by Joakal on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @08:23PM
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You do realise that in USA, people mostly vote for republicans or democrats despite some hating them?
Rest of world have multi-party governments. Many more choices.
So much for an example that puts people on defensive instead of raising awareness of how distorted the electoral system in USA is.
Re:EPA Science Under Scrutiny by Trump Political Staff
by comex on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @09:09PM
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And the US has primaries. Last year there were 17 Republicans all trying to win their party's nomination in a series of open votes; out of those, the eventual winner, Donald Trump, was perhaps the candidate least liked by the party establishment.
If anything, the problem was too many candidates, combined with a first-past-the-post system. The majority of primary voters disliked Trump, but were split between several preferred candidates (who I group because they were far more similar to each other than to Trump). Trump got a certain segment of the vote all to himself.
That's one of the most perniciously false equivalence I've seen in a while, and that's saying something. The US has elected congressmen, elected senators, elected governors and an elected president. Even the top two presidential candidates are chosen from a wide field in primary elections. Portraying that as a stark choice between only two options and saying it's practically the same as China and North Korea, which provide no choice whatsoever, is really pretty disgusting.