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(→"Liberal" and "Conservative": - I would be happy see a rewrite of the Center squeeze#Effect of strategy section, but it seems difficult to appeal to a mainstream audience without discussing "left-wing politics" and "right-wing politics".) |
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Center-squeeze is bad because it elects poor representatives, not because it elects non-centrists on some absolute spectrum. If the voters are all pro-women's suffrage extremists and anti-prohibition extremists, then a good voting system that doesn't suffer from "center-squeeze" would elect a pro-suffrage and anti-prohibition candidate, not someone who is centrist on both issues. It's an unfortunate name, we should try not to reinforce this misconception. — [[User:Psephomancy|Psephomancy]] ([[User talk:Psephomancy|talk]]) 02:43, 14 May 2023 (UTC) |
Center-squeeze is bad because it elects poor representatives, not because it elects non-centrists on some absolute spectrum. If the voters are all pro-women's suffrage extremists and anti-prohibition extremists, then a good voting system that doesn't suffer from "center-squeeze" would elect a pro-suffrage and anti-prohibition candidate, not someone who is centrist on both issues. It's an unfortunate name, we should try not to reinforce this misconception. — [[User:Psephomancy|Psephomancy]] ([[User talk:Psephomancy|talk]]) 02:43, 14 May 2023 (UTC) |
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:Feel free to edit this section to your liking (though expect others, like me, to swoop in and change what you wrote, possibly reverting your change). The section was originally added by [[User:BetterVotingAdvocacy]] in 2020 (see https://electowiki.org/w/index.php?title=Center_squeeze&diff=prev&oldid=8773 ) and could use some copyediting (such as the RanSOM noTE capitalIZATION). Personally, I suspect that most voters (even outside of the United States) think of the political spectrum as a single-dimensional space with "[[left-wing politics]]" and "[[right-wing politics]]", so it's difficult NOT to talk about electoral issues without describing the two traditional extremes in political discourse, but I'd be happy to see a different version of this section. -- [[User:RobLa|RobLa]] ([[User talk:RobLa|talk]]) 20:15, 14 May 2023 (UTC) |
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