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[–] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don't think everyone being forced to elect would yield better results.

[–] jarfil@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

As opposed to FPTP, gerrymandering, multi-layer representative cutoffs, regional vote weight balancing, or the D'Hondt method?

What's your basis to think that?

[–] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm not american and know about half of those words.

[–] jarfil@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'm not USA-n either, so only most of those apply to the flavor of "democracy" I get. It's still a good exercise to know about the options.

[–] WhiteHawk@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There's democracies that are not the USA, you know

[–] jarfil@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Indeed. I highly encourage everyone to learn about how "democratic" they actually are.

[–] WhiteHawk@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You're gonna have to explain that if you want it to mean anything

[–] jarfil@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sure:

Indeed.

Expression of agreement with the previous comment.

I highly encourage everyone to learn...

My wish is to improve the knowledge of the reader and anyone else...

...about how "democratic" they actually are.

...about the different political systems which get called "democracies" by different countries around the world, and how their practical applications differ from the idealized concept of "democracy".

[–] WhiteHawk@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago