Comments by "Luredreier" (@Luredreier) on "Who Writes the Rules? - Rules, Part 3 - Extra Politics - Part 6" video.

5:56 False, it has happend in America, multiple times. Both communists and anarchists have experienced persecution in the US multiple times, heck, a few years ago a coffee, cookies and crocket party with a group of elderly unarmed anarchists debating politics where raided for no good reason, at least non that I'm aware of. For the record, anarchist in this context does not mean violent or no rule (something that the upper classes managed to make a synonym with the word in the english language), but rather the anarchist ideology where "anarchist" means no king/ruler and is all about moving societys power over to those being ruled instead of to a small elite class of rulers. Democracy itself was the first form of anarchy and every step towards liberalization and making society more free for the individual to govern themselves more and be less governed by others is a continuation of this ideology and trend. As for the communists... McCarthyism is a clear case of this. Believing in communist ideology, values etc where persecuted regardless of how much or little someone had to do with the country that supposedly where benefitting from the "treason" they where accused of. 5:38 Heh, while the intention might be to protect the minority the US election systems ruleset does anything but... If you genuinly want the minority to be protected you kind of need a proportional system where no one party is able to become the majority on its own in my view.
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Thanks for acknowleging that. Too many people in the US think that the US election system is somehow more free and better then then something like the Iranian or Chinese system yet very similar mechanics are at play. While the issues of the country leaves the parts of the world where political parties actually are represented roughly based on how popular they are (proportional representation) kind of scratching our heads... Don't get me wrong, all electoral systems got flaws. But I've been advocating for a switch from majoritarian/pluralitarian systems to proportional ones for a while now. Here's a bit of light reading that I recommend looking up: http://www.fairvote.org/what_is_proportional_representation_and_why_do_we_need_this_reform http://aceproject.org/ace-en/topics/es/default I hope you'll enjoy the read. ;-) (And I hope the channel will address the impact of different electoral systems on the playing field, especially because an argument against multiple parties seems to be that people think having more causes more arguing and less actual work being done while in many ways forcing the politicans to actually negotiate to get anything done by never allowing them a majority often ends up reducing the partisanship, both because there's more parties in existence that can bridge the gap between the major parties politically incentivising moderation and dialogue, partially because the fringes of the parties ends up leaving for other parties that negotiate based on their actual strength with the big parties and are prefered or avoided as partners based on how willing they actually are to compromise and make good deals leading to everyone essentially having a reason to treat eachother well. As a side note, if a party goes totally rambo and tries to attack a different party they often leave themselves vulnerable to a party that is less vulnerable or not at all vulnerable to their attack in the process of attacking that other party so it's often strategically a bad idea to do so too)
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