Plausible, and most worrying because it suggests the Conservatives (or Reform) will continue to move to the right until eventually Labour shits the bed and loses an election to the by-then borderline nazis …
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@cstross Well, maybe. But most people don't want to vote for Nazis, so alternatively maybe if the Tories make themselves unelectable and stay there, then if Labour *also* makes themselves unelectable does it open space (even in our FPTP monstrosity) for a third party? Greens or Lib Dems or even a splinter party from Labour or the Tories.
@cstross @VoxDei there was that time when I wondered "when did Condorcet do all his work on voting, too bad Franklin didn't know about it when they wrote the US Constitution" and then looked at Wikipedia and discovered that not only were they contemporaries, they fucking worked together.
At which point I just wanted to throw things.
@dr2chase @cstross Yeah, though my understanding was that they wanted democracy, but that wasn't the same as wanting to do what the people wanted (hence the electoral college. It doesn't surprise me at all if they looked at new-fangled mechanisms that might give "too much democracy" and rejected them in favour of something tried and tested like FPTP.
@VoxDei @cstross is there no option to replace FPTP with a more sensible way to elect people?