Ex journalist now working in housing policy. Looking for better #democracy, better #cities, #Sacramento and #California politics, #transit, #climate, #housing, music, esp. postpunk, #newwave, college/community radio, etc. I used to worry that I was easily bored, but turns out I’m just easily interested. Not very technical, but curious about all the ActivityPub stuff and have some other accounts around the Fediverse. he/him/all y’all
@MyBrainHurts living in the us I guess it feels like fptp is producing government that is every bit as unresponsive to people’s problems. (Really a lot more unresponsive, for the problems important to me, like climate and housing.) And given the choice between a party system where it’s a little hard to build a coalition that lasts more than a couple years, and a two party system with one party actively dismantling democracy; I’d so so happily take the first one.
@AlolanVulpix @MyBrainHurts Sorry I know this isn’t directly abt PR for Canada. But isn’t Germany really an example of PR success? AFD is not in government. In the US, a similar movement (MAGA) pretty easily parlayed a small plurality within one party into a takeover of every government branch.
@MyBrainHurts Lol, now you’re making my brain hurt. I’m not sure if you realize how bad things are here. Ah well, we won’t convince each other. But wish you all the best up there.