Question

how can intolerance destroy the democratic system of a country​

Answer 1

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Federalism. Consider this:

Winner take all: When a vote is held, whoever wins the most votes in the territory gets all the votes of the territory in any election the territory makes, under winner takes all.

Disproportionate Voting: Because every territory has a limited number of votes (otherwise the federalist system wouldn’t make sense), even if the territory in question doesn’t use winner take all, at some point if the votes made in a territory are distributed to represent that territories collective opinion, it cannot be distributed equally.

Take for example, Virginia. If Virginia has 20 votes in the US presidential election, and 33% of people vote for Carl Anderson, how many of Virginia’s Votes go to Anderson? 6 or 7? Either way it goes, you cannot perfectly represent Carl Anderson.

This can lead Federalism to undercut democracy in a number of ways:

Gerrymandering

Federal Preference to State Opinion over Popular Opinion (For example, in the US presidental election, the majority of people voted for Hillary. That doesn’t matter though, because the majority of state votes went to trump)

Majority Tyranny (Explained below)

Often, Nationalistic Regions will demand autonomy under federal systems, or home rule. The reason being that they believe the Motherland has the tyranny of the majority on them, and they’d like to have the tyranny of the majority themselves in their respective region. Regions with more autonomy can (and do) establish opinons that contradict that of minorities in the region, and of the majority of people in the country as a whole, and have a dispropitionate effect on elections which use federalism.

I bring all this up because some areas that are intolerant of other areas cultures like to divide themselves up into their own seperate states, which in my opinion, makes a mess of things. I don’t have anything against federal countries- a good federalist country can be good for holding states that would otherwise be soviergn together. BUT, I do have a problem with unnecessary provinces, which is a direct result of intolerance within a democratic federation.

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