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That would be democrats
We would need a constitutional amendment, meaning state ratification. Ain't no way that's happening.
No way it would happen right now if the democrats won. But so long as the constant tug of war between Democrats and Republicans happens rather than one side overwhelming the other, nobody has any reason to change other than just enough to win the next election. Political change can take a lifetime to manifest, especially in a broken two party system, but if anyone thinks it will come within a single election they're fooling themselves. Handing power back to the party that sinks people deeper into propaganda and lies, ensures that not even baby steps can be taken forward, let alone leaps.
The Democratic Party actively crushed attempts at ranked choice voting. What planet are you on?
Unlike the republicans who active embrace ranked choice voting? /s
If the republicans have no chance to get into office because the democrats reach a critical percent of the vote every time, it opens up the doors to a progressive party or reform within the democrats that would allow for ranked choice voting to become a debated issue. But as it currently sits the democrats are the ones in the hot seat to become the party that can't be elected anymore, and then it opens the door for an even more right wing party to spoil the democrats vote, and since republicans benefit the most from the current system, and have a base that is far more easily controlled than democrats, the odds of being able to get ranked choice voting there are non-existent, compared to the alternative.
Bingo.
If we keep voting for a traitor party that deconstructs our federal government every other election then we'll never reach a place of stability where we can push things further to the left and open up debates on universal healthcare and ranked choice voting.
Right now Americans are basically children that slingshot back and forth between the parties because neither one solves every problem known to man in 4-8 short years. If we managed to elect Democrats for more than 4-8 years at a time we'd see massive progressive change in this country.
You're only ever going to have a chance at that by continually voting for the better, more malleable party. Or violent revolution. And I'm getting too old for that.