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If you and your dining partner rank the kind of restaurants you'd like to go to tonight. You rank 1) Indian 2) Chinese and 3) Italian Your partner ranks 1) G

If you and your dining partner rank the kind of restaurants you'd like to go to tonight. You rank 1) Indian 2) Chinese and 3) Italian Your partner ranks 1) Gastropub 2) Chinese and 3) Steakhouse you're going to get Chinese food, not because it exists on a line between each of your first choices, but because it is acceptable to each of you, if not preferred. It is a compromise by definition.

johnchristopher 8y ago
That's a compromise by the numbers, not by the nature of the food. Chinese food isn't a compromise, a blend between Italian, Indian, Gatropub and Steakhouse food. In Chinese food there isn't a little bit from every other choices. A candidate being chosen on virtue of a compromise by the numbers doesn't mean s/he aggregates some ideas from other candidates. Hence my remark about that candidate being on a different spectrum from the others. I am not saying he shouldn't be chosen or that people wouldn't be happy about it, I am saying that his ideas aren't a compromise from the other candidates' ideas.
- SquirrelOnFire 8y ago
  Right. And I'm saying that political positions don't have to fall on a single line either. How many axes can you chart a poltician's positions on? Authoritarian<>Libertarian Traditional Values <> Social Relational Values Survival Values<>Self Expression Values Interventionalist <> isolationist That's just a few from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_spectrum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_spectrum Say in the US 2016 election Sanders had run as a 3rd party. He was a liberal populist. He might well have been the second choice of both the Trump and Clinton voters, despite not being positioned between the two. He'd still have been the compromise candidate.
baddox 8y ago
Not a great example, because neither you nor your friend probably despise any of those 5 choices, and even if you do, it’s no big deal to just decide to get dinner separately tonight. Remember, political elections are about choosing the candidate or policy that exerts power over everyone in the jurisdiction.
- SquirrelOnFire 8y ago
  Wow. So literal. So let's talk 2016 presidential election I'd imagine that a Trump Voter's ballot would look like the following if Sanders had run as an independent. 1) Trump 2) Sanders 3) Gary Johnson (Maybe with a flip on 2/3) Clinton voters would be 1) Clinton 2) Sanders Neither primary choice would be acceptable to the other. There would be some voters who preferred Sanders first.

johnchristopher 8y ago

That's a compromise by the numbers, not by the nature of the food. Chinese food isn't a compromise, a blend between Italian, Indian, Gatropub and Steakhouse food. In Chinese food there isn't a little bit from every other choices. A candidate being chosen on virtue of a compromise by the numbers doesn't mean s/he aggregates some ideas from other candidates. Hence my remark about that candidate being on a different spectrum from the others. I am not saying he shouldn't be chosen or that people wouldn't be happy about it, I am saying that his ideas aren't a compromise from the other candidates' ideas.

SquirrelOnFire 8y ago
Right. And I'm saying that political positions don't have to fall on a single line either. How many axes can you chart a poltician's positions on? Authoritarian<>Libertarian Traditional Values <> Social Relational Values Survival Values<>Self Expression Values Interventionalist <> isolationist That's just a few from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_spectrum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_spectrum Say in the US 2016 election Sanders had run as a 3rd party. He was a liberal populist. He might well have been the second choice of both the Trump and Clinton voters, despite not being positioned between the two. He'd still have been the compromise candidate.

baddox 8y ago

Not a great example, because neither you nor your friend probably despise any of those 5 choices, and even if you do, it’s no big deal to just decide to get dinner separately tonight. Remember, political elections are about choosing the candidate or policy that exerts power over everyone in the jurisdiction.

SquirrelOnFire 8y ago
Wow. So literal. So let's talk 2016 presidential election I'd imagine that a Trump Voter's ballot would look like the following if Sanders had run as an independent. 1) Trump 2) Sanders 3) Gary Johnson (Maybe with a flip on 2/3) Clinton voters would be 1) Clinton 2) Sanders Neither primary choice would be acceptable to the other. There would be some voters who preferred Sanders first.