[EM] Political system oscillation?

[Michael Ossipoff]

Regarding the remainder of Richard's post:

Richard said:

Making elections fairer would be like putting a damper on politics.  The
momentum that can cause wild swings would be difficult to get started.

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Pseudoscience can lead to mistaken predictions. Actually, our
inadequate voting-system, Plurality, doesn't oscillate about the place
that the political system would occupy with a better voting system. It
never gets there.

As I've previously described, Plurality can (and currently does) keep
electing two unliked parties at Myerson-Weber equilibrium. Changing to
a better voting system, such as Approval, Score, ICT, or Symmetrical
ICT, would result in the political system moving to the voter median
and then staying there.

As for "oscillation", if you want to put it that way, there is a
short-term, small-amplitude oscillation between those two
abovementioned unliked parties. Having just elected one of them, the
voters (re)discover its inadequacy, and, convinced by the media that
there are only two choices, they tend to soon elect the other unliked
party, as a reaction against the one that they previously elected. But
that "oscillation" never approaches the voter-median, the point that
the system would go to with a better voting system.


...some boom-and-bust cycles, probably including the
one we are in now.

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Could it be that we're "bust" due to wars that we can't afford?  Nah :-)