at least in parliamentary democracies the political elites who decide often represent supermajority coalitions. in FTPT systems with strongly sorted parties, the coalitions become electorally cynical median voter chasers, largely detaching elections from governance. 1/

that said, we could keep a popularly elected executive and escape the curse of the orthogonal marginal voter if we adopted a spoiler-resistant electoral system like approval voting for posts where individual electeds must serve the whole community, rather than representing part of a minipublic. /fin