• lolcatnip@reddthat.com
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    4 months ago

    I said nothing about conspiring. I was thinking of how a swing of a few percent of voters in many systems can be all it takes to swing the outcome between different extremes of policy and ideology. No system with that property can reliably represent the will of the people, because whatever the overall will is, the system will routinely fail to represent it. People elected to nationwide offices should be boring centrists pretty much 100% of the time because most countries have little ideological consistency in their populations and they should never have a national leader who antagonizes a large portion of the population.

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      4 months ago

      I disagree with pretty much everything, but THIS is absolute lunacy:

      People elected to nationwide offices should be boring centrists pretty much 100% of the time

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        4 months ago

        Have fun playing fascist roulette, then. That’s what’s happening whether we want it or not.