Hey, this thread was not supposed to be for anything but righteous cliches, one liners and genereal
personal insults, you amarillo on the yellow lines!!
(was that correct US saying, in the middle there is nothing but yellow lines and dead amarillos,
or whatever that animal is called??)
Now you claim they are in the majority and even silents, at least it takes a thump.
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Anyway, what you describe is the good thing with a center-based multiparty system, that is
left-center-right, additionally
extreme-left (small)
left
center
right
extreme right (small)
Both extremes offload the major parties so that they do not use the same bahviour.
Additionally, the center can easily move somewhat left-right, so that there actually is
some competition on trying to be "moderate".
And what is best, usually two of the major parties can form a majority government, that is,
normally the extremes cannot blackmail a weak majority.
And if things get boring, the extremes can parrticipate in the government, for some years.
The extremes can always be expected and trusted to keep the left and right parties somewhat
watchful of their own cliches
Ilmarinen
However, note that there has to be a "moderate center party" for this to work, otherwise
the system reverts to something "worse than a 2-party system"
The "breathing" of the system is also a good mechanism, of the three major goupings
vary
40-10-40% (polarization, crises)
20-50-20% (sloppy, boring, approaches a one-party system)
Based on assumption that a healthy society has a somewhat odd 10% in its population,
kind of 5% on one extreme and another 5% on the other side.
That is, I do not totally agree on that "middle, silent majority", we elections coming up and the
center is not silent at all, they are attacking wildly both left and right. (one reason is to avoid
that 40-10-40% situation, but more complex than that)
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