Netherlands is a democracy

to choose which party gets a seat, and who we want to have a seat either in our lcoal region or in the parliment

See the difference

I'm running to get a seat in my local communehouse next year 👌

@MountainMan see that sentence right there "which party gets a seat"

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Parties don't get seats, people get seats

thats why we also have person vote 👌

problem is that not many people care much about the personvote. people care about the parties more.

But what do you mean by "a party gets a seat"?

so in parliment there are seats, and the percent of vote for a party gets a percent of the seats.

but there are many seats, and we can choose the people who get a seat from each party.

in the local commune system its basically the same, but you dont really need to be a part of a party.

that's kinda cool

but it of course helps being a part of a party if youre running to get a seat in the commune

@MountainMan is member of the AllHotThotsAllowed

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Okay, explain this "percentage" thing again

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may as well just link the wikipedia at this point 😅

@Fitzydog Lets say the Swedish democrats gets 20% of the vote, ok? Then they get 20% of the 349 seats.

Ahh

Democracy

yes

based

sweden is small enough that it works

I can see the problem in places like USA however

That's why I'm differentiating parties between our two systems

yes haha I'm just trying to understand how the american system works

There's 50 different republican psrtjes

oh shit?

huh. cool.

50 different Democrat parties

just for context, there are 50 states right?

Yes

or am I retarded?

oh ok!

Well then. Seems like a pretty fitting system if you ask me.

So a Democrat in West Virginia could be more related to a republican in Oregon

Ahhhhhh!

i would call them just different branches of the republican party tho