I still see you do the same thing, Dave. You are jumping toward a single truth and hold on to it with what you've got.

Don't forget that you were born inside a system and that you ended up thinking according to that system. Your brain has been trained to think in a certain manner.

That is probably the hardest task, and I think I was very fortunate to live in three nations each with a different political system. You should travel and if possible stay in a different nation for quite some time.

What I particularly notice is how you are an Anglo thinker. I cannot help you overcome it because you need to be exposed to an entire culture thinking and behaving differently. A single person cannot make you see it (I am doing my utmost best), while a quick vacation will also not last long enough to experience it.

When looking at the happiest nations in the world, one can see that proportional voting is superior. When looking at voter turnout, one can see that proportional voting is superior. When looking at female representatives, one can see that proportional voting is superior. When looking for political truths, one can see that proportional voting is superior.

Again, the Czech and Slovak republics do not have proportional voting, so your family is not able to tell you what the benefits are of proportional voting.

If there are two levels, then the benefits of proportional voting are already diminished, and when there is an empowered president it is definitively undermined. If there are three (like France) then there isn't much benefit at all.

Ranked-choice voting is makeup. I don't even want to waste my time on it any more; we've discussed it in the past. The real benefit is that one does not have to have run-off elections. Democracy-wise, there is no other benefit.