Comments by "Samson Soturian" (@samsonsoturian6013) on "BankWars: Weimar Hyperinflation Episode 3" video.

An extreme case of the representation problems you bring up is in Turkey, where elections are intentionally rigged in favor of the incumbent party. Most Turks vote for tiny parties, representing specific classes of persons and/or small communities. But the minimum threshold for getting a seat in Congress is high while the minimum threshold for forming a government is low. Meaning that small parties MUST ally with big parties or let their votes go to waste. And the incumbent has access to the censorship apparatus, appointment powers, and national budgets so they can easily bribe some parties and shut others up. Needless to say, every time an incumbent President dies there's a small war.
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@winnietheblue3633 that was also due to winner-take-all customs.
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@choosecarefully408 no one read that.
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British elections don't work like that. There's some weird skews from back in the days where towns voted instead of people, but I understood it was a party-list system... NOT a winner take all system. Also, the US elections run completely different where parties simply pile in candidates who run as individual that run for specific offices. This means that there are several pages worth of votes per ballot and a lot of people vote on party recognition, but it also means there's not much of a skew.
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