<you need to leave idealistic irrationalism for realism>
No need to leave, I already live in the rational reality of proportional representation
as an owerhwelming majority of indistrialized nations do.
Additionally not through party-lists, but through multimember districts, with some
smart mechanisms for really small minorities:
- small parties which fall below the 4-5% threshold in a district can form coalitions for
(only) the election in that district. That is, this favors small parties which can
cooperate with some other party.
- a viable center-party which makes it impossible for the small parties to act
as swing-votes in important issues
- small, special regions have special districts
- extremly small minorities, with certain needs and interests, are additionally represented
through other mechanisms.
Due to these issues the system has been defined as the "first democracy in the world" by Wall
Street Journal.
So where did you get the "irrational idealism" from when this is a more than one hundred
year old reality??
That is, in contrast to "The whole point of "democracy" is that "majority" interests will be represented",
which is usually called "the Tyranny of the Majority", the whole point that the majority (or actually
majorities) rules with the consensus of the minorities.
Mechanisms like
- 5/6 majority needed for constitutional changes, which also
- must be approved by two consecutive parliaments, that is, one
election inbetween for the people to have its say.
Additionally, all of this combined with the same system on the local
county-level where a group of 500-1,000 voters can get their own
candidate elected. (according to the idea that all politcs och issues
start at the local level)
All of this approved and blessed by the overwhelming majorities.
Btw, the positivism was for the few remaining two-party systems |
