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Originally Posted by Anthony
That's not really true; as long as people vote for the candidate who is 'closer' to their position than the other candidate, there is an optimal position. Now, people changing their priorities produces instability.
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People usually have different and conflicting priorities, when those line up in large clusters the center is unstable. The 'change' is not so much a change as the fact that the issue in question suddenly changes. It's a bit like water behind a dam, it can look calm and stable for year after year, but in fact it's in an unstable configuration, and any change to the dam suddenly changes the entire situation. Very suddenly. But it's not that the water suddenly became unstable, it's that there was an illusion of stability as long as the dam was in place.