Bobert - Yeah, that's a reasonable idea, to be sure. I still don't like parties, though, because they put pressure on their members to conform, and that is not good. I'm not for a one-party system, I'm for a NO-party system, ideally. However, if there are to be parties, then I think proportional representation is a fairly good idea, and it's more democratic. It usually results in coalition governments, which are less stable but also less dictatorial in nature than governments with a single party controlling a majority of seats.

Canada has had some minority governments (which in effect became coalition governments) and they generally resulted in a lot more progressive legislation than most majority government did, and they weren't so damned arrogant.

This can't happen in the USA right now, because there are really only 2 parties with a solid power base...and they mean to KEEP it that way. They feed from the same trough and their sponsors own the media.

- LH