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Originally Posted by opendoor
When voting for an individual who actually has power? That's pretty rare. Every other republic I'm aware of that doesn't directly elect its President, the President is basically just a ceremonial position.
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Not sure why the directly part is key. In a FPTP parliamentary system, votes don’t translate directly to seats. And the leader of the party that wins the most seats has a lot of power - Canadian PMs have far fewer constraints than an American president.
It’s pretty clear people only complain about electoral systems when they don’t yield a result they like. The number of Canadians I’ve seen moan about the U.S. electoral system being undemocratic while ignoring the loss of the party that won the popular vote in the last federal election proves that. The Conservatives’ loss is shrugged off with “their support is too concentrated - they should campaign better in the parts of the country where they’re weak.” Not sure why the same advice shouldn’t apply to Democrats.