Originally posted in a politics thread

There’s this thing that happens with video games, where a developer makes a game that’s good, but follows up with a game that tries to “appeal to a wider audience” and ends up kinda stinking. If you buy the game, they decide it’s working, and their next game will “appeal to a wider audience” even more. If you don’t buy the game, they decide their games are too niche, and they should make something completely different that “appeals to a wider audience.”

Video games can at least survive on niche support. Politicians can’t. They need to be more popular than every other politician in the same election as them. So I imagine the pressure to “appeal to a wider audience” is even worse.

(You could say this is how republicanism is supposed to work—by majority compromise. In that viewpoint, we don’t need better politicians. We need better voters to compromise with.)

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