Adi_Dem
Well-known member
Are you really saying that people are too stupid to be entitled to vote and that it should only be for really really clever people like you, Adi and Boromart?
Or unless of course they vote how you want?
There are disadvantages with every form of voting system, if you look for them.
There are imperfections with FPTP, but it is clear and simple, is understood and does give a result that more people voted FOR than anything else.
This sort of generalised, lowest common denominator argument is beneath you. Nobody has said or is saying that. And nobody is, as you imply, simply looking for disadvantages. The arguments put forward are really clear and you don’t have to go looking for disadvantages. Instead of addressing the points you’re choosing to put up a straw man that ‘only voting systems that give the right result’ or ‘are for clever people’ will satisfy us. And still no counter has been put forward.
‘Imperfections’ is doing a lot of heavy lifting there. It’s a grossly undemocratic system of a kind that nowhere in any modern forward thinking society has. And it absolutely does not provide a result that more people voted for than anything else. Just the opposite. More people voted for something other than a Conservative government and yet we ended up with a Conservative government with unassailable power. That’s not democracy I’m afraid.