Huge moment in Montréal: Transition Montréal has announced it will bring proportional representation to city and borough councils!That means fair results, no...
tl;dr: FPTP discourages fringe parties, so they can’t snowball into something much more dangerous. And PR systems have, in the last couple of decades, had a much harder time passing significant legislation which has led to a general stagnation/dissatisfaction, whereas a system that produces strong majority governments for better or worse, gets a legit chance to pass comprehensive legislation to tackle issues. Carney has 4ish years to try his best to make serious change without having to beg the Conservatives for everything.
If fascism is popular enough to win under PR, FPTP isn’t going to stop it
Yup, but I think PR fosters the emergence of Far Right/fascist parties.
I sort of explained the mechanisms to someone else in this thread here:
https://lemmy.ca/comment/18847795
tl;dr: FPTP discourages fringe parties, so they can’t snowball into something much more dangerous. And PR systems have, in the last couple of decades, had a much harder time passing significant legislation which has led to a general stagnation/dissatisfaction, whereas a system that produces strong majority governments for better or worse, gets a legit chance to pass comprehensive legislation to tackle issues. Carney has 4ish years to try his best to make serious change without having to beg the Conservatives for everything.