I think you’re confusing proportional and representative. With FPTP, It’s a government formed of the party that more people have voted for than any one single party. The AV might be preferable only because it requires that each MP in each constituency requires a majority rather than plurality of the vote, but its no more proportional than First past the Post. In some ways it can work out less so.
You are represented in parliament whether it was the representative you chose or not. I’m a non voter technically, haven’t voted in a General Election since 2017 and haven’t voted full stop in the last five years. But I’m still represented, because the system means I can take my issues to my MP whether they are Tory, Labour or ZANU PF.
Under the proportional panacea you propose, you aren’t represented at all….you can just convince yourself you’ve had more input in what the parliament looks like in terms of party layout. But all these politicians are representing their party rather than their constituents (because they don’t have constituents)
As for calling other people stupid, I say the same to you as id say to anyone who contended they were more intelligent than the average person….people in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones. The only real difference between you and the average voter is that they aren’t labouring under any illusion of being an exception in anyway. Nor are they encumbered by any misplaced sense of self worth.
You think you’d do better in those videos ? Not sure i think I would. It’s like listening to yourself on tape…do I really sound like that? And it’s not just a failure to recognise your voice but the actuality that you come across as a mumbling dullard.
Being able to express my thoughts in writing is easy, doing so verbally? I find it very difficult…because it’s more spontaneous and you’re often struggling to put together the sentence you want unless you’re in company that is familiar
And remember in these snapshot incidents, they are the people being approached not the other way round.
Plus the smart people sure do seem to lose a lot, which then by your logic suggests intelligence has no practical application because it lacks the ability to overcome the tyranny of the cretinous majority, which seems a bit dimwitted
Plus in the same way you’ve conflated proportional and representative. You’re conflating educated with intelligence
Even in this day and age, there’s no sense in denying that how educated you are depends more on the financial means of your parents, rather than intellectual capacity.