I have political views and beliefs. In fact it would be fair to describe me as strongly opinionated in politics, as on many other subjects. However I think the first thing to say is that I'm trying to appeal to people who consider themselves to be on the right, on the centre, and the left as well as those that don't feel they fit on the left right political spectrum. I'm hoping to appeal to those that are considered mainstream and those that are considered extreme and may consider themselves marginalised. So for example I wish to appeal to those that love Donald Trump, those that hate him, to those that have supported Trump, but with severe doubts and those that voted against him, but with severe reservations and concerns for the candidates that they voted for. I mention Donald Trump, just because he is an internationally well known figure. I have an interest in US politics. I am British so I naturally have an interest in British politics, but I believe my case is relevant across the world, in richer countries and in poorer ones.
Still, usually ideology is more complicated than this, and voters disagree with one another about how they perceive the candidates. The best candidate, according to this theory, is neither a progressive nor a conservative nor a centrist, but one whom progressives believe is a progressive, centrists believe is a centrist, and conservatives believe is a conservative. fn1
The First Past the Post System. The Candidate with most votes wins the geographical constituency was the natural, obvious way to elect representatives in earlier times. This was not only before the emergence of modern political parties, but for the development of so much technology and administrative infrastructure that we now take for granted. Before the invention of the telegraph, news and information spread was usually limited to the speed of a walking horse. In emergency situations and specialist situations, you could use fast riders, but as a general rule information spread extremely slowly even by mid Twentieth Century Standards let alone the standards of the Twenty First Century. This means that local communities had to be trusted to elect their own candidates there was no other choice. It didn't matter if you thought other communities were unfair in their selection of representatives, you just had to accept it.
The difficulties of travel and communication between communities meant that ties within communities were much stronger, geographical constituencies, geographic representation made significant sense. Over time local and regional solidarity declined. In the nineteenth century modern political parties emerged. in the western democracies, loyalty to party, ethnicity, religion, social class and ideology took precedence over loyalty to local community.