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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Or the UK, where Labour just won 63 per cent of the seats in parliament with only a third of the popular vote.
Of course, proportional representation has its own problems. It gives more power to fringe parties, makes coalition governments the norm, and those coalitions reliant on back-room wheeling and dealing that can drag on for months and months.
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The idea that coalition governments lead to
more back-room wheeling and dealing is pretty ridiculous. Coalitions tend to lead to very public and widely covered wheeling and dealing, because it's much harder to hide that you're wheeling and dealing when you have multiple parties involved.
Also, "drag on for months and months..." The US senate has been going between barely functional and completely paralyzed as a decision making branch for two decades now.
It's honestly so bizarre that anyone would defend the US system of governance, it's just so obviously incredibly antiquated and disfunctional.