I would like the opportunity to vote for someone who is not a member of a party if I think they would do a good job representing my constituency – while also be able to vote for a party I would like to form the government. What’s wrong with that? How does that entrench party power any more than it already is?

In fact, I think it would lead to more independents getting elected, especially if constituents couldn’t stand the dumbass candidate for their favoured party in their riding, but still wanted to support the party while voting for solid representation. I can think of 1 or 2 instances where that might occur.

As to that class of MP with no identifiable constituency – one could say his or her constituency is the entire country. Most people in Canada don’t give a rats ass about who their local MP is – why would this be any different to the majority of Canadians?

He was strongly but straight-out implying I was KKK or some other extreme right wing variant when I was saying compulsory voting was a bad idea.

How odd.

Once again, the word idiots comes immediately to mind.

Yeah, like that’ll fix things.

And then you get that class of topped up MP who has a seat and a vote but has no identifiable constituency – as I’ve said before, at least there’s a measure of honesty in that, they can represent their party without having to pretend they represent real life people in a riding.

MMP increases party power and dependence, why would you want to rub an already bad rash with sandpaper?

I recently learned about it in school, and I thought it was da bomb!

Our political system allows too much concentration of power. It worked reasonably well only so long as there were insufficient supporting technologies and no academic delusions that we could effectively manage complex social and economic systems with small numbers of decision makers and an insufficiently agile bureaucracy.

So now we have a political climate in which many people believe government with vast scope and size is desireable (the better to improve their lives at the expense of someone other than themselves since they would presumably see to their own desires if it were otherwise). But, this is the case only if their “team” controls it, since only their “team” is wise and benevolent. Because the power concentrates in the party leader and party representation determines which leader is seated, all voting is skewed to parties and very few truly useful mammals have a chance of being elected independently or obtaining a position in which to apply the weight of their skills and intellect.

All the STV schemes floated so far have been calculated to paper this over without addressing the root cause: the prize is too large. The best possible parliament is structured like the one we have now. The faction holding the PMO is checked by virtue of being a minority, and there is more than one possible partner with which to form a voting majority. The worst possible outcome of a nearly endless series of “natural governing coalitions” would be disastrous for the country.

A practical solution is to set a 75% majority threshold to pass legislation. Nothing would get through unless it commanded wide support.

Denver’s City Council president is getting hammered with hate-filled messages in response to Tuesday’s surprise performance of the "Black National Anthem" by a jazz singer during a city event.  You can contact him and let him…

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Why Nevada keeps electing him is a bona fide mystery.

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Yes indeed, it is clearly happening, that fact is not being disputed.  The only real question is “by who”.  This, by the way I regard as a serious issue.  I left Blogger 3 years ago to give my blog more creative control and securi…

Yes I know I have gone a few weeks.  I’ve been sick.  Sue me.

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