Re:'Reconciliation is dead': Indigenous Australians vow sile...
by boppo1 on Thursday October 19, 2023 @07:56AM
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>It doesn't have to be that way, and plenty of places do it better - and have healitier, more equal societies as a result.
Where?
Re:'Reconciliation is dead': Indigenous Australians vow sile...
by okokwhatever on Thursday October 19, 2023 @08:14AM
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Bang! You got the point mate.
Re:'Reconciliation is dead': Indigenous Australians vow sile...
by tomjen3 on Thursday October 19, 2023 @11:18AM
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Denmark, for one. Here we have an extension on the election system in Britain where your local area still does first past the post, but any "wasted votes" are then used to get candidates from a broader geographical area, so that each party ends up with nearly the same number of votes per member they send to parliament.
This means that there are 12 parties in our parliament (not counting those from Greenland and the Faroe Islands), but only 3 in the UK parliament.
I can't say we are healtier, but we are more equal with our votes than the UK are - if the UK had the same system the conservatives wouldn't have had the numbers to dictate Brexit.
Democracy isn't about winner takes all. Its about you balance the needs and aspirations of everyone in a society: literally the demos.
Sometimes, as in my country (UK), democracy is practiced by imposing a thresholding function on decision-making processes ("first past the post") but it's worth remembering that this is largely for political convenience. It doesn't have to be that way, and plenty of places do it better - and have healitier, more equal societies as a result.