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Comment by account42

2 days ago

It's the essence of any representative democracy - you'd need as many parties as there are citizens for everyone to be able to vote for one that truly represents their views on all relevant topics.

That might be true in some theory, in practice you can find reasonably good alignment for most people at five or six viable parties.

  • No, in practice I don't find that. In practice I find people actively voting against their interests because no matter who they vote fore the party is going to push for something they don't want.

True, but please see my reply to the sibling comment.

I suppose when choosing between electoral systems, the choice is indeed a matter of the lesser of two evils!