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El Salvador’s ‘cool dictator’ boasts country would be ‘a one-party system’ after election win
(www.telegraph.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 06 Feb 2024
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I fully expect to get downvoted for this but as much as im anti-dictator (like any normal person) you cannot deny he has objectively been a good thing for the country so far. He has decimated the gangs which has caused a 70% decrease in the homicide rate, going from the highest in the world to the lowest in Latin America. And him being talked as a "dictator" isnt really accurate either. He was elected Mayor of the capital at fist, was extremely popular so ran for president and won, democratically, in a landslide. And his policies, specifically with that gangs has kept him at a mind-boggling 90% approval rating, making him the most popular leader of any country, and he is running for re-election fairly and democratically, because why would he even need to rig the results when hes so insanely popular?
Yes there is Plenty you can criticise him for (being anti-aborition and anti-gay marriage for example) but in that regard he is no worse than any previous leader of the country.
People on this site insist that we need to eliminate the Republican Party in the US, effectively making it a one-party system in a democracy.
Doesn't sound so bad now, does it?
We do need to eliminate the Republican party but that's far from the only problem with US politics. Honestly, moving away from a first past the post voting system would force both Democrats and Republicans to do better, or get replaced by parties that better represent their constituency.
Research the Weimar Republic. Getting rid of first past the post, can have the opposite effect, giving the crazies more power than they would under first past. Fringe groups, especially left leaning, always want transferrable vote or proportional because that way they'd get more representation but they always seem to ignore it can backfire.
Protip: Your argument has more weight if you use modern examples if you can find them, rather than the Weimar republic. Sounding like you are escalating to the end of Godwin's law does not help your point.
Which is annoying because I agree that it can backfire if done wrong.
Oh look, the socialist doesn't like a working knowledge of recent history. Transferable vote systems and proportional aren't all that that common. and an example of the possible results less than a hundred years ago isn't irrelevant. I've looked at the systems before, and quite often the result of the formulas used is a majority of someone no one really wanted.