Education.
Most voters are aware that we have just this silly two-party system; yet many think that it does not really matter. So, showing that voting systems do matter is one form of creating the desire to reform our voting system. I have the evidence, if interested.
We also need to make it simple. Most voters do not understand how the other system works; most voters do not know that they are being taken for a ride in our voting system today.
We have to come up with good, simple examples why the voters are better off when they can express themselves better politically. It does not help that we do not have any location in the USA where we are voting proportionally today. Meanwhile, Thomas Jefferson is the father of proportional voting.
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The US Constitution is not put in place correctly where voting systems are concerned. This is a tougher path but not impossible to take.
The 14th Amendment declares that "no State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States".
The word to understand is privilege.
When 100 people are doing the same work, then it is not a privilege if only 60 get paid and then the employer saying that the people were paid. Not a privilege but abuse of some but not others.
Same for our voting system.
When 100 voters come out and 60 of them receive their desired representative then that is not a privilege.
The interesting part is then that the US Constitution divides the nation into a Federal level where voting is indeed not a privilege. For instance, when voting for a Senator, all is declared exactly how that must be done, and we have to use that system.
Yet from State level down, we must have Thomas Jefferson's pure voting system of full representation in place. Voting is a privilege; representation is a privilege.
You see; it is already the law. And it is found in our Constitution, so no judge can change it to something less. Only politicians can change the US Constitution.
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So, education is first, and looking for the Democratic Party or the Republican Party to do that for us is like asking the man next to the guillotine to spare your head; that is not where reform will come from and yet folks often look at one of the two parties to help them out (and will therefore not succeed).
Once education is common, once folks understand that we shoot ourselves in the foot every and all elections, then they can vote in reform-minded people.
Or, and that is the other pathway, we demand that our city or county starts giving us our promised freedom.
Once we have examples in our real life so we can see how we are repressed today, we can reform the State level as well and get a three-to-five party system in place for State levels. The Federal level will automatically follow as we know from other examples in the world (Australia, for instance, ask me if interested). We do not need to change the US Constitution to become a three-to-five party nation at the Federal level. But we must get proportional voting in place at State and local level where it should be in place already, per the US Constitution.
