We elected him as the "last rempart to the extreme right". Turns out he and his cronies are corrupted authoritarian fucks. Their shit social and economic policies are opening a highway to the actual far right in the near future, most likely 2027.

[–] baked_tea@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Lmao bait and switch

[–] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

More like shitty electoral system that facilitates the choice of a lesser evil instead of the choice for the best candidate.

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Sounds like the United States.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

They have proportional representation and a ton of parties. It's a completely different kind of suck. Although I guess they also are presidential.

[–] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 4 points 2 years ago

Definitely less worse but still shitty indeed

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

So what would be a good system? FPTP also sucks, or at least does for local minority voters like me, or if both parties become weak for whatever reason like in the US.

[–] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Maybe ranked choice voting, coupled with a parliamentary system instead of a presidential one ? I don't think there is a perfect system but it would probably move things around in a better direction.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 years ago

That's what the Australia does. Also note that says nothing about proportionality either way.

[–] Serinus@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Sinemaed.