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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 fo

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.