Welcome ! The first week after I found this sub I barely slept . I stayed up til 234 am night after night just reading and reading and reading some more . It ' s like finding the tribe you never knew you had . Your girlfriend sounds like a good friend . <| sep |> Fuck . i want varian , but i could get piggy . but varian . <| sep |> The people are Nords , like Nordic . Also , just look at them , they are basically Vikings . <| sep |> Does it matter ? <| sep |> One of the problems is the way a democracy is imagined in the minds of the public . These days , it seems normal to think of it like a sport two sides compete , and there ' s a winner and a loser . The winner gets to do whatever they want , and the loser just has to suck it up until the next competition . This is an inherently corrosive view of democracy . It means you will always have a significant plurality of the population feeling hard done by , feeling like their needs aren ' t being considered and they have no way of making their opinions count . Frequently this can even exceed 50 % of the population , thanks to the way elections work in the US . Democracy should be about compromise the winner gets to take the head of the table , but all members of society get to sit around it and contribute to policy discussions . Nobody should be ' shut out ' just because their team didn ' t do as well as other teams . Having a ' first past the post ' system exacerbates this corrosive view of democratic government . If people understood democracy more as a forum for consensus , they take other people ' s views more into account . Someone who might want to write in ' bernie ' or vote for Jill Stein to assuage their own conscience might be more likely to suck it up and vote for Clinton because they realise the consequences of Trump winning will be bad for the least powerful in society , regardless of the fact that it won ' t impact them much . Unfortunately the ' horse race ' model is clearly the most profitable for the press and media companies . It is in their interests to make it into a sports event as much as possible . Generating the most bitter partisan divide is good for business . It ' s just terrible for the country . What is needed is something like ranked preference voting or MMP , so that the horserace aspect is curtailed and the major parties have to get used to building coalitions .