Thank you for your reply. If we follow your logic, then the empire will fall indeed.
But... you are not looking at the options that are available today. You claim there are none that are good, and that is incorrect.
Dictatorships and nations that were not run well have fallen over the price of bread, so focusing on the top and envisioning how the top must change is understandable, but not the way to change our country in an innovative way.
By looking closely at what the Founding Fathers provided us, there is a doorway for innovation we can take at a level close to us. We can take it, and we can take it today.
Rank Choice Voting is not proportional voting. RCV is winner-take-all, the same we have now, in a different jacket. Just one person ends up getting the seat, so we still have many losers not getting represented (and hating the voting system for it).
The other form of democracy is truly different. I have shown it to many and they were all surprised: "Oh my God, it is totally different." Let me know if you want an example.
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Many cities have been contacted already and were served a Constitutional Invocation. The demand is that they clean up their incorrect voting system and implement the correct one (which is the full-representative version of democracy). The Bill of Rights is fully in place for local governments; they did not receive powers like the Fed and the States to circumvent it, but they did lull everyone into thinking that everything is all on the up and up, while it isn't. District Voting and At-Large voting conflict with the Bill of Rights, the improvement enforceable at the local level only.
You may not think much of it, particularly when focusing on the top of politics. But every pyramid touches the ground. So don't storm the pyramid to change the top. Add layers to the bottom of the pyramid, so the slant becomes gentler, nicer, better for all of us.
Once we have the inclusive democracy installed at the local level, this can 'trickle up' to the State level. From that point on, the two-party system will be history.
In Australia, they did what you are suggesting (and they did not have to change the impossible to change US Constitution). Their Senate has 72 Senators, 12 from every state, elected in two rounds. These rounds are proportional for 6 seats. As a result, they have three important parties (two big, one small), and as a result they have a slightly better society than we have. They stopped the undermining of themselves because they stopped the elitist voting system and made it more democratic.
New Zealand changed their voting system in 1996, and in one election using the new system almost 50 percent more women were voted into seats. That is how repressive winner-take-all is.
The US is 76th in the world in light of female representatives. No surprise; we have the crummy voting system.
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Come join us, RC, it sounds like you have nothing to lose and much to gain.
Provide City and State, and I'll send a Constitutional Invocation (without mentioning you as the source unless you want me to). It is step 1. Step 2 starts in a few years.
https://fred-rick.medium.com/citizens-invoking-the-us-constitution-325c17290881
