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Re:The Icelandic Voting System by wqaatwt on Sunday April 20, 2025 @10:37AM (#43744056)
> were viewed dimly by the Founders

Hypothetically that was true. Until those founders started engaging in actual politics and became rabidly partisan.

There was a brief period when the Federalists collapsed and US effectively became a single party state with the Democratic-Republicans controlling everything but that was decades after the constitution was signed.

Re:The Icelandic Voting System by smitty1e on Wednesday April 23, 2025 @09:50PM (#43778560)
Inviting the question of whether parliamentary systems offer substantial improvement.

For a glance at Europe, I'm firmly in the skeptical camp.