Good Evening, Juho
re: "I already commented earlier that the "groups of three" based method
that you have studied does not implement proportionality in the
traditional way."
You're right. It's not traditional, but it sure is proportional. One
of the unspecified conditions I intended for the 'groups of three'
method was that participation in the election process should be
mandatory, as it is in (I believe) Australia, Singapore and New Zealand.
If every person in the electorate participates in the process of
selecting those who will represent them in their government, there can
be no greater proportionality.
re: "Large parties (or whatever opinion camps) tend to get more
representatives to the higher layers (more than their proportional size
is)."
Is that assertion not based on the assumption that large parties (or
opinion camps) must dominate our political existence? What is, is not
necessarily what must be. Partisan interest can not compete with
private interest when private interest is given a means of expression.
When each member of the electorate can pursue their own political
interest, the sum total of their interests must always be the interest
of society.
When people have an opportunity to exercise their own judgment, they may
be influenced by family, race, education, partisanship, national
heritage, age, health and a multitude of other minor considerations, but
none of these will override their vital interest in the specific issues
of their time and place. If the preponderance of a community has a
coherent desire, it will, given the means to do so, achieve it ...
regardless of whether the desire is labeled liberal, conservative, or
any other doctrine.
It is a fallacy bordering on foolhardiness to seek the solution to
societal problems in doctrinaire proposals. The difficulties we face,
the wars we wage, the threat to our environment, are real. They require
real thought, not the pseudo-thought of partisanship. Doctrines may
attract adherents but they beget confrontations rather than solutions.
That the concepts I speak of do not exist is a given. The question in
my mind is whether we can look past the mind-numbing influence of
partisanship to seek empowerment of the humans among us.
Fred
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