I feel like a lot of our issues, in Canada at least, could be fixed by axing FPTP.
Right now a lot of people feel pigeonholed into 'preventing the other guy from taking power' which is a ridiculous thing to have to worry about. If we had proportional representation, we would see a lot of independents popping up.
I think it goes even beyond that. A decent representation of independents would require the larger parties to actually work with the independents to pass anything. I can't tell you the amount of people who I know that voted for Trudeau's Liberals because they felt there was no other competitive option.
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I feel like a lot of our issues, in Canada at least, could be fixed by axing FPTP.
Right now a lot of people feel pigeonholed into 'preventing the other guy from taking power' which is a ridiculous thing to have to worry about. If we had proportional representation, we would see a lot of independents popping up.
Yes, FPTP could be a mitigation method as lobbying could (not necessarily) lose power.
I think it goes even beyond that. A decent representation of independents would require the larger parties to actually work with the independents to pass anything. I can't tell you the amount of people who I know that voted for Trudeau's Liberals because they felt there was no other competitive option.