The Duverger Syndrome is democracies' most critical illness.
Both the causes and the fixes are known.
Solutions must be applied as a matter of priority.
Putting party over country, the rat race for power...
Politics is a noble art.
Being a politician should be a noble profession, an act of public service.
Unfortunately, negative campaigning and dirty politics is spoiling everything.
Everybody recognises negative campaigning.
Nobody like it.
It is everywhere.
Politics really does not have to be the way it is today.
With the use of a proper voting method, we could solve most of the dirtiest aspects of politics,
and mostly turn negative campaigning as a distant memory from the past.
Negative campaigning is the process of deliberately spreading negative information
about someone or something to worsen the public image of the described.
A colloquial, and somewhat more derogatory, term for the practice is mudslinging.
Why our electoral choice always seems to be limited to two less-than-ideal candidates...