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I will never get over how Americans have 37 flavours of Doritos, and only two political parties to choose from.

First-Past-The-Post elections make a two party system a mathematical certainty. We need Ranked Choice voting at all levels to allow third, fourth and fifth parties to succeed.

But you can't have that. The people you elect are Going to be from the two parties And those parties don't support that policy, so unless you're planning on doing a violent revolution not gonna happen.

Same way women got the right to vote. Protest enough and force your state legislature to adopt it. Then when enough states are doing it, force the Fed to do it.

unfortunately the powers that be also understand this. 19 states have made it essentially impossible to ever establish RCV, even at the municipal level.

It's not just FPTP. We've always had FPTP in the UK, yet now there are more parties than ever. Labour, the Conservatives, the Lib Dems, the Greens and Reform are all serious contenders for significant seats nationally, and until recently the SNP dominated in Scotland.