cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/24368090

The seat make up would look more like the left if we had a more fair and accountable proportional representation over the obsolete first past the post.

  • Grimpen
    8·
    6 months ago

    FPTP was fine when elections were held within a riding, and results were delivered by horseback. You were voting based on a local candidate, not the national party.

    Then the railroad, telegraph, telephone, and internet were invented, politics became national, and we’re still using FPTP.

    • ZC3rr0r
      4·
      6 months ago

      Thanks, that does actually help out of into context and explains how we got here. I think the better question (and the one I should’ve asked) is why are we still using a system that predates the railroad?