“Most of the non-voting electorate in the US is more moderate than present-day voters. Compulsory voting would, therefore, help to depolarize American politics.”https://quillette.com/2019/11/29/the-case-for-compulsory-voting/ …
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Yes - and this study on contemporary US politics shows that "political moderates", in fact, often have the most extreme political views. They consider themselves moderates or independents as their extreme views doesn't fit neatly into the 2-party system:https://academic.oup.com/poq/article-abstract/73/4/679/1829142 …
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Right now researchers in Germany are lamenting that the AFD, which they see as a danger for democracy, achieved its successes at the elections by mobilizing great proportions of former nonvoters.
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