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Voting for party B only punishes party A if it increases the chance that A loses an election to B. Which seems like a no-brainer, but I found most of my erstwh
by FredPret 4y ago
Voting for party B only punishes party A if it increases the chance that A loses an election to B.
Which seems like a no-brainer, but I found most of my erstwhile fellow citizens voting not for B but for B, C, D, ad infinitum.
Because parties B - Z are now tiny parties, they get no momentum, and nobody votes for them... because nobody else votes for them.
Leaving a huge voting block for A, who happily keeps ruling regardless of being unpopular with all but 30% of the population.
Better to have two parties that are balanced on a knife edge, and they have to perform or they lose.
- oehpr 4y agoI'm reading though your responses trying to figure out what mysterious force is present in this hypothetical proportional representation country that prevents a majority subset of parties B - Z from forming a coalition. Can't figure it out. On the assumption that Party A just simply has the majority still? This objection lakes cogency, so maybe you could make this general objection more concrete by citing a country that finds itself in your abstract scenario?