I completely agree with your points about keeping our focus on electoral reform and maintaining a non-partisan approach. Our community is quite new, and still trying to figure out what it is (hence this thread).

You’ve hit on something fundamental - proportional representation isn’t a left/right issue, it’s a democratic fairness issue that benefits voters across the political spectrum.

You’re absolutely right that conservatives have just as much to gain from PR as progressives do. Under our current FPTP system, conservative voters in liberal-dominated ridings essentially have no voice in Parliament, and vice versa. PR would allow for a more natural evolution of our political landscape, potentially enabling:

• Conservative voters in urban areas to finally gain representation
• The conservative movement to diversify beyond a single big-tent party
• Issue-based coalitions that better reflect the actual views of voters
• More honest representation without strategic voting distortions

The mathematical case for PR is clear regardless of one’s ideology - when roughly 50% of ballots cast make absolutely no difference to the outcome of an election, we have a serious democratic deficit.

I’ve noticed the same trend you mentioned regarding content that doesn’t directly relate to electoral reform (relating to the newness of the forum). While there’s certainly room to discuss how various politicians approach democratic issues, we should be cautious about letting the community become an echo chamber or a place that feels unwelcoming to potential PR advocates from across the political spectrum.

Perhaps we could encourage more content that specifically demonstrates how PR would benefit conservative voters? I’d love to see analysis showing how many conservative votes were effectively “wasted” in the last election, or how PR would change representation patterns for conservatives in traditionally non-conservative regions.

See this draft content moderation policy, that I created specifically in response to your feedback!

Thanks for your feedback! I was unaware ‘all’ was a mean to find this fairvote community.

Overall, I agree, but in the meanwhile, we should make a conscious and concerted effort towards a goal.

A sort of sub task leading up to the goal of proportional representation.

Increasing the subscriber count helps towards that (at least in my opinion).

Thank you for your encouragement!

More countries are adopting pr!

The fediverse is the perfect place to encourage more people to support proportional representation. Imagine if your only choices were lemmy.ml or lemmy.world.

Your vote should count!

We’ve been growing at about ~10 new subscribers for the past week. The fair vote movement is truly alive and growing!

We will get proportional representation one day – we are deserving and entitled to representation!

But we can’t do it alone, please spread the word!

6. Recruit a french moderator. We need someone to focus on that communication front as I’m still a beginner in french maintenant. I suppose a good stopgap can be to post french articles to entice interest.

What is your actual goal? Electoral reform or making line go up?

Proportional representation, but doing things outside of the community is out of scope of the question. You also don’t know what I do or don’t do outside of this community.

Edit: it’s like me asking you, “do you like chocolate or vanilla”, then you come back with, “I want an ice cream parlour”. That wasn’t even in the question…

Because if you ask me it should be getting people ready to volunteer in battleground ridings so that when people are done, if they won they can use their new relationships to push to prioritize ER.

Ok, I’ll take this into consideration.

2 of an MPs constituents asking for something is FAAAAAR different from “2 people on my campain team had this as their #1 priority”

I agree!