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Originally Posted by Xaccers
I'm disturbed that you think it's acceptable to choose an electoral system that is designed to produce NOC, compromise, fractured government, and wasteful positions.
Germany and Italy are wheeled out as examples as good and bad, while ignoring Germany's near bankruptcy through botched reunification which still sees the East being vastly behind the West, and the serious weakening to Merkel's government through the coalition she was forced into several times.
I could of course list many more countries where PR produces weak and ineffective governments, but you already know about them, but are choosing to ignore them.
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Good grief what a load of nonsense. PR is not 'designed to produce NOC, compromise, fractured government, and wasteful positions'. Why on earth would anyone want to 'design' a system with those attributes? PR is designed for government to reflect the opinions of the electorate. That it result in weak and ineffective governments is just baseless rhetoric. The example of German reunification is completely irrelevant. How on earth is the fact that this process was 'botched' down to PR, and what evidence do you have that this process would have been done better under another system?
Oh, and I'm very interested in this long list of weak governments that you will probably fail to provide.