Minority Rule: First Past the Post Voting

[Coyoteari]

Depressing modern relevance aside, it’s kind of incredible how well this video holds up a DECADE later

[rawb]

I watched this many years ago now, but this might be one of the most important videos of my lifetime honestly. Every political discussion in my life ultimately has ended with showing and sharing this video with friends and family.

[ScholarOfDarkness]

Can we talk about how this poor lion Queen has a new husband every four years? Talk about divorce court.

[aspenirving]

Oh, I never understood why the US only has two active parties... That explains a lot

[SrinivashM]

Very true! In India we follow FPTP and now we are left only with 2 major parties and little choice. Time for a revamp.

[DaedricSheep]

Watching this at work, my coworker exclaims "zootopia lore is weird"

[Gmanrocky]

I just realized the animals used in video were chosen intentionally

Owl voters are neutral

Gorilla, monkey, and turtle votes are all less aggressive, with Gorilla being reserved but tough and turtle being extremely non-confrontaltional

Leopard, tiger, and snake voters are more agressive, with Leopard being a predator yet sluggish and snake being extremely confrontational

[nfinn]

This is quite possibly the most important and underrated political video on the entire Internet. You explain why FPTP must be abolished more clearly than, I think, anyone else ever has. This deserves to be shared far and wide. Frankly, it's criminal that this video series is not taught in every high school civics class in America.

[gojoubabee]

Who cares about Trump or Hillary, I'm voting for Turtle

[Pwndbythnb]

It's scary how almost a decade into the future this is the most relevant thing about the 2020 election.

[Dfizzleshizzle]

I also discovered this video years ago, but I have used it countless times to explain our voting system to other people, and I just wanted to thank you for creating something so detailed and informative yet simple and easy to follow. Every time I show it to someone I end up rewatching it myself and am always amazed at how effectively it conveys it message. Beautiful work.

[helioveo]

I wish people knew more about other voting systems. Everyone is dissatisfied regardless of ideology. Plurality is unrepresentative and unfair!

[reaver]

You explained perfectly why I hate America's system. Most people vote against a party they hate instead of for one they like . And because your party knows you have no other choice they have no incentive to actually listen to the needs of their voters

[juancuelloespinosa]

I couldn't put my finger on why I disliked politics and voting until I watched this video. You can't understand how this important this video is to me gcp. Thank you

I could feel my brain growing just watching it!

[wanderingrandomer]

Or: an introduction to British politics!

[oldskoolmusicnostalgia]

FPTP is your typical British political idea: sounds great on paper, generates dire consequences. The aim of it was to generate governments with strong majorities to implement their plants, which in theory appears wise enough. The actual result is parliaments that are totally unrepresentative of how people vote, consolidated around 2-3 main political parties while the rest are relegated to the fringes regardless of their share of votes. It generates disenfranchisement as people begin to realize their vote amounts to nothing unless they vote for one of the major parties.

[eavannickolas]

Washington, on his deathbed: Please don’t make a two party system.
Hamilton and Jefferson: Mhm, mhm, we won’t. 🙂

Guess what happens n e x t

[iffi]

This is teaching me better than school ever could. I'm just randomly tapping on this guy's videos and it helps with visual learning, repeats the demonstration (sometimes in a slightly different way as it could play out differently), and explains fully.

[kid]

Tiger 2016! Tiger will build a wall! And Turtle will pay for it!

[Schum]

Dear Grey, A friend of mine from Russia wanted to know why we only have two candidates in America. This was a question I actually didn't fully know, but this video helped me explain why their is only the Democratic and Republican party and why we don't have third parties. Thanks you for making this video.