This is called burying. It makes sense in systems that violate the later-no-help or later-no-harm criteria, but instant-runoff voting satisfies both of those.
https://electowiki.org/wiki/Tactical_voting#Burying
I like this framing a lot – thanks for sharing!
Looking forward to it! Will it be on Pocketcasts?
Is ED different to the Coombs method?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coombs%27_method
Can you explain why "most democratic Western countries will become fascist dictatorships" specifically is the most likely outcome? I'm not quite following the "line go up" reasoning.
Just to give some concrete illustrations: Western Europe has dropped by 0.08 points on the Democracy Index over the last decade. If that happens again, it will fall to 8.28, so about as democratic as the UK is now. Definitely not fascist dictatorship territory!
If we pessimistically assume that Western Europe will decline faster in line with the world average, we get to 8.13, a ... (read more)