This viewpoint smacks of arrogance.
Who decides who an extremist is?
If people vote for a candidate, they get to be represented by that candidate by a variety of mechanisms. One is First (or Furthest) Past The Post. Beat everyone else running in a smallish area, & represent them.
To call every alternative to this “PR” is actually misleading, since the moral argument is made on the grounds of proportionality, whereas only an altered majoritarian outcome is guaranteed. I could go further to highlight the contradictions in the logic of the Electoral Reform Society argument, but that’s for another post.
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