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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The issue is that the same people that would lose votes from doing so would have to change the system. Which obviously means they have no incentive to do so.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

In healthy democracies reform happens anyway, though because there's grassroot demand and politicians willing to capitalise on it one way or the other. It's just that that's not one.