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<blockquote data-quote="Goweresque" data-source="post: 7462596" data-attributes="member: 818"><p>Unfortunately its the extremists who win, because they have the drive and motivation to make stuff happen. The moderates, while far greater in number are more 'meh' about things so who do you think politicians take notice of? </p><p></p><p>The history of the Troubles in NI gives us a very instructive lesson in what happens - one would have thought that once the Good Friday Agreement was signed the political parties that had been anti-violence on both sides of the divide would be the ones to benefit. Yet it was the exact opposite - the extremists were the ones who won at the ballot box. Parties like the SDLP which were nationalist but peaceful have lost out to Sinn Fein, who obviously hadn't been peaceful at all. </p><p></p><p>The same will go for environmentalism, or indeed any other area of competing views on how society should be ordered. The ones who scream 'Meat is killing the planet!' and protest with Extinction Rebellion will be the ones listened to, the moderates who stay at home and do their recycling and bike to work won't be. Politicians listen to the squeaky wheel, not the silent majority.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Goweresque, post: 7462596, member: 818"] Unfortunately its the extremists who win, because they have the drive and motivation to make stuff happen. The moderates, while far greater in number are more 'meh' about things so who do you think politicians take notice of? The history of the Troubles in NI gives us a very instructive lesson in what happens - one would have thought that once the Good Friday Agreement was signed the political parties that had been anti-violence on both sides of the divide would be the ones to benefit. Yet it was the exact opposite - the extremists were the ones who won at the ballot box. Parties like the SDLP which were nationalist but peaceful have lost out to Sinn Fein, who obviously hadn't been peaceful at all. The same will go for environmentalism, or indeed any other area of competing views on how society should be ordered. The ones who scream 'Meat is killing the planet!' and protest with Extinction Rebellion will be the ones listened to, the moderates who stay at home and do their recycling and bike to work won't be. Politicians listen to the squeaky wheel, not the silent majority. [/QUOTE]
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