You’re only able to choose two options, how is that democracy? I thought democracy was about being able to choose anyone you think is suitable to be a leader, not one of two pre-selected people. At that point, it’s not much different to a one-party system, just with two people rather than only one person.

  • sbirdOP
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    83 days ago

    I would say that’s a good definition

    • @jimmy90@lemmy.world
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      83 days ago

      that’s why in many european states we’ve evolved to variants of multi party, transferable votes systems

      it still has inherent flaws and it still seems to have 2 sides (one side kinda sorta has to be the majority “in power”, and the others in opposition) but it feels and maybe is more representative of the vote we cast

      • sbirdOP
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        13 days ago

        maybe it’s due to the inherent human“us vs them” mentality. the “us vs them” thing really causes a lot of problems :<

        • @jimmy90@lemmy.world
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          22 days ago

          Not so sure about that. It’s adversarial in nature but that’s not a bad thing. It means we keep changing hopefully for the better for everyone