Thank you railman [Thu 17-Jun-21 12:38:08] et al. That certainly makes sense.
Many of these groups (at either extreme over time) do feel they are not listened to but don't seem to take that through to the fact that they are minorities. Occasionally we get a clever b...er who manages to pull enough small, disenchanted minorities together by telling them something that sounds like what they want to hear but means nothing - but the win makes them feel powerful and not a minority. We all know where that can lead - how many were watching the storming of the American Capitol with their heart in their mouth.
I wish I knew how we could change our voting system. I'm sure that if, rather than people thinking they had clumped together with the like-minded, and producing the subsequent surprises of the Russian Revolution, 1940s Germany, Trump and Brexit, each person's vote counted toward the number of representatives they have in parliament we would not end up in such extremes although the extremes would have a say relative to those who believe that it the way forward.
It is so sad to see our country in this state.
