Realistically we need to get rid of this first past the post system that directly results in two major parties. If the US had more political parties to choose from and for politicians to align with, we’d have a bit better odds at choosing more representative people.
A sentiment I’ve seen echoed hundreds of times; but nobody ever speaks of a way to actually achieve that.
America already has more than two parties, but nothing but the two major ones get even close to being elected.
How do you move from what you already have to a more balanced multi party system?
This is why I suggested a change that could theoretically be made immediately, and would have a large effect. I’ve heard no other actual solutions put forward.
How would your solution be any different than voting for a third party? It would have the exact same problem of being too risky because it probably won’t get enough votes to do anything other than help the party you don’t want to win. Ranked choice is a simple change that could be implemented quickly with some decent support already.
Realistically we need to get rid of this first past the post system that directly results in two major parties. If the US had more political parties to choose from and for politicians to align with, we’d have a bit better odds at choosing more representative people.
A sentiment I’ve seen echoed hundreds of times; but nobody ever speaks of a way to actually achieve that.
America already has more than two parties, but nothing but the two major ones get even close to being elected.
How do you move from what you already have to a more balanced multi party system?
This is why I suggested a change that could theoretically be made immediately, and would have a large effect. I’ve heard no other actual solutions put forward.
How would your solution be any different than voting for a third party? It would have the exact same problem of being too risky because it probably won’t get enough votes to do anything other than help the party you don’t want to win. Ranked choice is a simple change that could be implemented quickly with some decent support already.
You make larger districts that elect more than one representative each.
Or at least that was how it was done here in Denmark.
Your theory is not even remotely sound