Ranked choice voting open to all.

Hey Democrats and Republicans, will you allow for the possible destruction of your parties? No? ...oh

One of the biggest issues I see on the ground is that voters aren't stepping up. This is even at the local level. This is a problem all across the USA. Good people aren't willing to run for a lot of these local offices. Nobody's preparing the next generation / replacements to take over once older candidates age out or move up the chain. Then even if you get multiple people to run for a local office, these voters who are supposedly tired of the 2 party system don't volunteer, donate, or even bother to show up to events where the candidates are making themselves available for dialog. They aren't interacting with candidates' social media. So realistically, if voters don't change, nothing's going to change about the 2-party system.

The 2 party system only works for business and power. We need a system that works for the people.

Yes, these are the types of structural changes that need to be made before all the wishful thinking guiding people's voting behaviors can amount to anything positive. Looking at the current landscape, ranked choice specifically, Democrats are receptive to the idea because they want leftists to at least put Democrats second while the GOP hates the idea so much they're passing laws per-emptively banning ranked choice for more or less the same reason. There's the path forward.

Ranked choice pls

Sigh

The actual article.

We're also open to executing politicians for treason when they hold more allegiance to money and Israel than the people they represent.

Like seriously NPR. Clean it up a bit and ask that fucking question. Report on how many people you interview agree with that sentiment.

Report on actual sentiment.

Never gonna happen. The duopoly is never gonna allow it.

This can be done on local level but on national level you would need constitutional reform which is extremely unlikely.

Two parties? Who is the second party?

I prefer Bob Loblaw's Law Blog

They’re open to big changes because corporations have captured our political parties and neither party answers to the population, you know, like a functional democracy. Citizens United and deregulation of corporations is where things went wrong.

Our de facto two party system isn't statutory. It's not written in the constitution that there can only be two parties. It's just the natural consequence of a winner-take-all, first-past-the-post election system. All a candidate has to do is win 51% of the votes to get 100% of the political power. It makes third party candidates essentially nonviable. That's what would need to change if we want to ditch the two party system.