Quebec's CAQ Faces Total Wipeout After Breaking Proportional Representation Promise

May they be the first of many political parties dashed against the rocks of "consequences of not bothering to represent their voters".

The world needs proportional voting solutions, so that easy questions like:

"should we burn the whole planet down around our own ears?"

can be addressed with a consensus of voters with overlapping concerns such as:

"I don't want to starve to death"
"I like my home neither on fire nor under water",
"some of my grandchildren don't suck, and deserve a livable planet"
and "I'm willing to briefly sacrifice some quarterly oil company profits to ensure my own personal survival".

It may take work to get folks to see eye to eye, but with proportional representation, I believe we can.

(I don't mean to make this about climate, there's lots of topics that work. But the near total inactivity we see, alongside widespread alarm, feels like an obvious example of an almost total lack of effective representation.)

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Oh they face total wipeout for more than just that. They are an incompetent despotic government that works for their private interest business friends and housing barons.
May they be the first of many political parties dashed against the rocks of "consequences of not bothering to represent their voters".
The world needs proportional voting solutions, so that easy questions like:
"should we burn the whole planet down around our own ears?"
can be addressed with a consensus of voters with overlapping concerns such as:
"I don't want to starve to death"
"I like my home neither on fire nor under water",
"some of my grandchildren don't suck, and deserve a livable planet"
and "I'm willing to briefly sacrifice some quarterly oil company profits to ensure my own personal survival".
It may take work to get folks to see eye to eye, but with proportional representation, I believe we can.
(I don't mean to make this about climate, there's lots of topics that work. But the near total inactivity we see, alongside widespread alarm, feels like an obvious example of an almost total lack of effective representation.)
- God I would love to watch the federal liberals get overtaken by the NDP one day.