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Originally Posted by blankall
Our political paradigm lumps a bunch of random beliefs into two different camps. It's broken.
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Multi-party, rep by pop systems aren’t necessarily any better. Look at what’s happening in Europe these days. No party ever gets close to a majority, so every government is a coalition. And it’s becoming increasingly difficult to exclude the populist, anti-establishment parties from those coalitions, as their popular support grows.
So you may vote for a moderate, establishment party. And they might win the election. But when it comes to forming a government, they need to partner up with the populists anyway. And now instead of the policy brokering between those groups happening at an open party convention before an election (as they do in our big-tent system), it happens post-election, behind closed doors. And it can take many months for these negotiations to drag out (9 months for the Netherlands’ most recent government), leaving a zombie government in charge in the interim.