re: #238 Hecuba’s daughter

OT — at the end of last night’s sermon, our rabbi discussed the continuing debacle of Israel’s effort to elect a stable government. He suggested we could discuss that around our dinner tables, as a diversion from our politics. The anti-Netanyahu coalition consists of groups that disagree on every issue except one: getting rid of Netanyahu. Israel has certainly demonstrated the potential instability of parliamentary systems, when the legislature is fragmented across multiple parties and there isn’t a single dominant party or one with a couple reliable partners that holds a majority of the vote.

That’s the problem when the threshold for proportional representation is set too low.

If the threshold was raised to 5% that would knock out most of the fringe parties.