A good and passionate reply, Frederick; I always like that.

I, too, lived in various nations with different systems, but the USA for almost half my life.

What I see and understand from its history is that modern notion of what the USA is for folks here themselves was actually not delivered by the democratic process, but by the reaction of the failure of the US democratic system.

The 1929 Wall Street Crash was a rather logical outcome of the two-party system, and the New Deal the understandable reaction to it.

For forty years that established what we now see as that American Dream, yet the next forty years is when the breakdown began of that ideal, and we are now in the following forty years, returning to the pre 1929 years of what this two-party system must deliver.

I write must, because I do not see any other pathway for a nation that embraces competition as the essential aspect of organizing their own society.

Winner-take-all is by default a flawed system because it creates haves and have-nots out of voters.

The happiest nations in the world do not have winner-take-all. They have a system of full representation.

That said, we also don't want twenty little parties in the US, because that would break this nation apart within months. So, there are good reasons to not change elections at the Federal level.

That said, the Founding Fathers did not envision a two-party system, and actually demand in the Bill of Rights that we have an optimized voting system in place for city, county and State levels.

The States are not going to go for it by themselves (they point to freedoms given to them, so good luck getting them to abide to that requirement), but the cities and counties have no choice. They must abide to the Bill of Rights and they were given nothing to hide behind.

So, there is hope that the USA may one day indeed be a democracy (meaning, having voters pick their own representatives and not a system of haves and have-nots). Just not at the Federal level, which is fine.

Thank you, Frederick. I hope you appreciate my reply written with passion as well.