Lincoln....hmmm.<br><br>He was an incredibly polarizing figure at the time he was elected. The southern states were so angry he got elected that they seceded from the union as a direct result. Over the next 4 years half a million people died.
There was obviously a lot more to the civil war than that one election, but most of the differences between northern and southern states could very likely have been resolved peacefully (in the many years leading up to the civil war) if the election system was designed to find compromise and broad support, rather than amplifying and reinforcing differences as plurality does.
<br><br>Plurality polarizes people. It forces people into two opposing factions, even if those factions didn't exist in the first place. If the factions already exist, it reinforces them.<br><br>Sorry, but it most certainly is "so bad".
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