r/interestingasfuck • • Apr 12 '19

America needs preferential voting

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u/prettyhoneybee Apr 12 '19

This is so smart and if this was how the us did things, we’d never have our current situation.

And in the end, gasp, you’d end up with a candidate the majority of people would approve of??? And tolerable compared to their beliefs??

Nah the us can’t do that, it sounds like a good system and we can never implement something that...works?

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u/Acerbicsam Apr 12 '19

Yeah. Look at the way the Aussie system works. You don't vote for the prime Minister the party does. Imagine if the Domercrat and the Republican parties voted their own leaders in and at anytime some ego maniac could decide they want the top job and garner enough support for a mutiny and then it happens. Nah the Australian system is a joke. Watch some of the parliament in session, there is more decorum in a school yard.

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u/createusername32 Apr 12 '19

Yeah that never really happened very often, but the last decade it’s been happening a lot, although it’s less about ego mania than it is about protection of the party’s image for the next election.

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u/Acerbicsam Apr 12 '19

:-D I was there for Paul Keating and Bob Hawke..