First Past the Post Voting

[leftsock]

I recently watched this video explaining first past the post voting, and thought it was interesting. Most of us have some inclination about how this works and its problems, but it was nice to have it explained in six and a half minutes.

[ame]http://youtu.be/s7tWHJfhiyo[/ame]

First-past-the-post voting - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Paco Bedejo]

OMG! I have to vote for Leopard or Gorilla will fling poop at me!!!

Kidding aside...the guy in the video presumes that Leopard & Gorilla are polar opposites. This doesn't translate very well into American politics...no matter how much people would have us believe we have "Left" & "Right" parties. As has been evidenced for the last 2 years, the Democrats are no less war-mongering than the Republicans who were previously in power & are no more socialist either. To put it in this video's terms, Leopard & Gorilla are working together to steal all the squirrels' nuts to give to the sloths while going afar to squash all of the groundhogs.

 

[88GT]

That's why we have primaries. It's the hybrid of FPTP and AP.

 

[leftsock]

OMG! I have to vote for Leopard or Gorilla will fling poop at me!!!

Kidding aside...the guy in the video presumes that Leopard & Gorilla are polar opposites. This doesn't translate very well into American politics...no matter how much people would have us believe we have "Left" & "Right" parties. As has been evidenced for the last 2 years, the Democrats are no less war-mongering than the Republicans who were previously in power & are no more socialist either. To put it in this video's terms, Leopard & Gorilla are working together to steal all the squirrels' nuts to give to the sloths while going afar to squash all of the groundhogs.

I agree that the Democrats and Republicans are very similar as seen through the actual actions and policies implemented by either. Is it just the case that the public perceives differences in the two parties then? If they didn't, it wouldn't matter to them which they voted for. Is each party's position simply a marketing ploy while their actual implementations are nearly identical?