We’ve already gone over the merits of PR and I’ve politely shown you why PR doesn’t seem to be a great choice. (For anyone interested, I’ve given this person a boatload of time to hear these same tired points over and over again. https://lemmy.ca/post/40556342/15124577)
tl;dr: Despite cries of cherrypicking (which seems absurd given that our G7 peers are probably the best comparisons, though you could also look at Austria, Netherlands, Poland etc to see PR going so poorly that people are giving up and turning the extreme right. Basically, it comes down to what you think Democracy is for? If it’s to produce good governments that benefit their people, I think our system seems to be doing a better job than PR has recently (Personally, I think polarization, less informed populaces and the emergence of a bunch of serious problems in rapid succession have made a system based on coalitions much more difficult) whereas this person seems to believe the only thing that matters is getting the most accurate reflection of how people vote (though, oddly, hates some forms of PR like Israel’s even if they are more representative of how people vote. I guess it’s vote representation is all that matters until the examples don’t look good.)
Edit: OP also seems to have responded then locked the thread to prevent a response. For anyone who manages to get through the pages of silliness.
For this election, electoral reform isn’t making it into the top 5 or 10 in any poll I’ve seen, feel free to share something contrary! (It’s sort of like climate, many people are in favour of climate legislation but it’s not top of mind for this election.)
We’ve already gone over the merits of PR and I’ve politely shown you why PR doesn’t seem to be a great choice. (For anyone interested, I’ve given this person a boatload of time to hear these same tired points over and over again. https://lemmy.ca/post/40556342/15124577)
tl;dr: Despite cries of cherrypicking (which seems absurd given that our G7 peers are probably the best comparisons, though you could also look at Austria, Netherlands, Poland etc to see PR going so poorly that people are giving up and turning the extreme right. Basically, it comes down to what you think Democracy is for? If it’s to produce good governments that benefit their people, I think our system seems to be doing a better job than PR has recently (Personally, I think polarization, less informed populaces and the emergence of a bunch of serious problems in rapid succession have made a system based on coalitions much more difficult) whereas this person seems to believe the only thing that matters is getting the most accurate reflection of how people vote (though, oddly, hates some forms of PR like Israel’s even if they are more representative of how people vote. I guess it’s vote representation is all that matters until the examples don’t look good.)
Edit: OP also seems to have responded then locked the thread to prevent a response. For anyone who manages to get through the pages of silliness.