A system that expects parties to listen, compromise and find common ground produces calmer politics and better decisions.
Canada can have that too with proportional representation. We just have to choose it.
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Proportional representation is great. In australia we use it for one house of parliament with preferential voting for the other. It allows a wider range of popular opinion to be reflected than even preferential.
But both italy and israel have proportional representation, so let's not think that it magically turns you into a scandanavian social democracy.
Technically Finland is not part of Scandinavia.
Ah, yes, the great democratic system of Australia, in which if you elect a government too far to the left, you get a coup. Where criticizing a politician on social media gets your home firebombed
Italy uses a parallel system and Israel has serious problems with their society.
Iceland, Norway, Ireland and Austria use proportional representation and they’re very successful stable democracies.
Democracy in Australia is a joke. Since federation in 1901, it's been a variation of the same two parties in power, with the smallest of Greens blip. We have no diversity of ideas represented in our country, only LibLab neoliberalism.
The only real democratic system is direct democracy.