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by andrekandre 1274 days ago

  >  Australia and the sense is that it tends to dull the extreme fringes of the party platforms
even if thats true... you still have the overton window [0] to worry about (slowly lurching in one direction or another towards extremism)

still though, i feel its more fair if 99% rather than 30% of the people decide how they want to run their country

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window