Preserve the system, change the culture

I have an op-ed piece on iPolitics.ca today, as part of their "78 ways to fix the way we do politics" series, in which I argue in favour of the "first-past-the-post" electoral system. The opportunity came up as a bit of a surprise, when the deputy publisher emailed me after I tweeted my displeasure with the two articles on electoral reform that appeared in the print edition of the series. After a bit of discussion, and given their awareness of my own previous writings on the topic of democratic reform, they offered me the chance to write my own piece, which I gladly took up. Hopefully it can be a useful contribution to the discussion that follows.