(Controversial) Political parties are like bundled sales.

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• Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  In that they offer you policies you like and policies you don’t like, and they cannot be separated.

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• markz@suppo.fi ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I don’t think that’s controversial.

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• kbal@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  More like cable TV packages.

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• SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  This is a weakness of all forms of representative democracy, partisan and non partisan alike. I can picture liquid democracy solving this, where you delegate votes on stuff that you dont care about to your preferred MP, but retain your direct vote for bills you do care about. Another, albeit not yet viable, solution discussed on plurality.net is an AI parliament that summarizes the opinions of the entire voterbase. This type of problem is called Broad Listening (summarizing and grouping a superhuman amount of opinions), and LLMs have the potential to be very good at this. The best solution so far was the system of local MPs but truly effectove broad listening is, obviously, a task that is beyond their abilities/will.

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  • Tower@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    “Broad listening” sounds like a system ripe to be exploited by very loud but minority voices…

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    • SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      IMO if MPs can learn to discern these people, LLMs can too. Not saying the tech is there yet though.

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• ComfortableRaspberry@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I feel like this differs a lot from country to country and depends on if you have such bs as first past the post.

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  • SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Theyre still bundles just theres more to pick from

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    • not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      When you ha v more options to pick from, you can choose the one that most closely aligns with your views, rather than just picking the least bad one.

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• kbal@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  More like cable TV packages. Full of stuff you don't want, mostly made for and by fools, very expensive.

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• Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Only in political systems that were not designed with partisanship in mind and thus became the worse partisan shithole to be conceived.

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• Sidhean@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  As in?

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  • markz@suppo.fi ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You want a party that pushes X and Y, but by voting them, you’re also voting for Z and W, which you might not like.

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    • Sidhean@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yeah, that makes sense.

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