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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
If you're right, if compromise and middle-of-the-road policies fail to engage citizens, and voters really want representatives who will go to the barricades carrying the flag of stark ideology, where does that leave democracy? Modern democracies can't really function without compromise (as we see in the U.S. today). One side will never defeat the other. If push comes to shove, you'll have civil war if they try.
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I think this is the key. Itse's perspective is interesting, but I couldn't disagree with it more strongly. Convergence is crucial to the functioning of our society as it's structured. If your view is that the structure doesn't work, that's a whole separate conversation, but just on this item specifically it seems to me that continued divergence and ideological entrenchment in more and more extreme views means the end of western civilization as we know it. Basically would prove Plato right.