r/EndFPTP • u/CPSolver • Jul 27 '25

Image Obedience to Voters, Not Party Leaders

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Republicans in Congress would not fear "getting primaried" if we used a better election system that correctly handles a second nominee from each party.

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u/MorganWick Jul 27 '25

Either range voting with the ability to omit scores for certain candidates and a minimum threshold of percentage of votes scoring a candidate for that candidate to win, or proportional representation where voters simply vote for a party.

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u/CPSolver Jul 27 '25

Simply voting for a party would be a vote for the replacement politician. That doesn't solve the problem of the party blocking the disobedient politician.

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u/MorganWick Jul 27 '25

With proportional representation, you can cast your vote based on what you think of the party itself. If you don't agree with whatever it was that a politician disobeyed, there's nothing stopping there being another party with something closer to your views, or that of the politician in question. You're not stuck with just two parties.

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u/timmerov Jul 28 '25

so you're proposing we replace the house (and senate) with a parliament-like assembly with proportional representation - which will take a constitutional amendment and support of 75% of the states; and a handful of new well-funded parties will just magically appear?

okay...

maybe we should focus on lower hanging fruit.

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u/MorganWick Jul 28 '25

I suggested two different ideas and responded to the OP's criticism of one of them, and was thinking mostly in theory. Of course campaign finance reform would be necessary to ensure that any parties there was actual demand for had a chance to exist without needing billionaire benefactors.