you would simply an ignorant moron who doesn’t understand the fucked up problems that are baked into any “first past the post” system
Idk if I’d call someone who hasn’t mastered the electoral math of various esoteric voting systems a “moron”.
The system is working exactly as they fucking intended
Really depends on who you ask. You’d be hard pressed to convince a bunch of 2016 mega-donors that the optimal result of the season was a Donald Trump presidency. That’s certainly not where all the big money went during the primaries.
FPTP doesn’t play well with gerrymandering or hyper-partisanism. If your elections are decided by the primary, and your primary is closed or otherwise stacked to favor the most ideologically pure candidates, you end up with an elected bureaucracy that looks like a fun house mirror reflection of the base.
Ask Jeb Bush if this is the outcome he intended ten years ago. Ask Liz Cheney and Cindy McCain. Politics is way off the target drawn by the neocons back in 2000.
Idk if I’d call someone who hasn’t mastered the electoral math of various esoteric voting systems a “moron”.
Really depends on who you ask. You’d be hard pressed to convince a bunch of 2016 mega-donors that the optimal result of the season was a Donald Trump presidency. That’s certainly not where all the big money went during the primaries.
FPTP doesn’t play well with gerrymandering or hyper-partisanism. If your elections are decided by the primary, and your primary is closed or otherwise stacked to favor the most ideologically pure candidates, you end up with an elected bureaucracy that looks like a fun house mirror reflection of the base.
Ask Jeb Bush if this is the outcome he intended ten years ago. Ask Liz Cheney and Cindy McCain. Politics is way off the target drawn by the neocons back in 2000.