It Is a Two Party System Here, After All...

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3. I think ranked-choice voting could help, BUT

1. it has to start with more local elections, and organizational elections, so people get accustomed to how it works.

2. the bigger problem - the "purists" might STILL be idiots and fail to cast their second or third choice ballots for a more centrist candidate who has a better likelihood of winning.

That said, I like it because it would give the opportunity for people to more truly use their vote as "their voice". Going back to Gore v. Bush - post election surveys indicated that about 2/3 of Nader voters preferred Gore to Bush. Had RCV been in effect, and had those Nader voters used their second choice votes - the world would be a different place today.

But now we have an even tougher hill to climb, because the tools of disinformation have become so effective, that the vilification of the mainstream Dem might be so successful as to deter the effective use of RCV. That is, the people refusing to give their one vote to the Dem nominee today, because "reasons", would now be targeted to believe that they are too pure to even rank that "awful" D at all.

I don't know how we solve it.