Thank you, Julio, for your article in which you present the problem well and try to find solutions.

Yes, we do need to climb out of this weird situation where we have all this technology and somehow are stuck in the fifties at the same time. I hope progress can be made.

But in my view the polarization will only get worse. The more we decide issues in our 18th century voting system, the more we will be forced to be Red or Blue (this can happen per issue as well, with our being for or against something becoming sharper and sharper).

We need the USA 2.0 upgrade. We need a round table where we are all represented, and not two camps duking it out all the time.

Modern democracies do not have this problem because all voters are represented; they do not compete for representation. We have a system where the voters compete with the voters for getting the single representative elected. That means we have losers, actually many losers among our voters. Our system is to blame for this polarization that I really don't think is going to diminish in the long run (Biden may do a good job, I like the guy, but I mean the actual long run).

We need to remove that painful aspect of losing from our voting system. It is the losing part that makes people fight harder, meaner. Besides, a true democracy means representation. A true democracy does not have a game in place before voters can get representation.

I have been writing many articles about our system. The latest is about minorities and why they embrace a system that is actually not in their benefit at all.

https://medium.com/carre4/why-minorities-embrace-winner-take-all-f81b22b7f72

Good luck continuing to gnaw on what is going on in our society. Your ideas are good, but I think the tree that was planted in the 18th century does not deliver us fruit of the healthiest kind anymore. There are better trees to plant that will benefit us all more.