We cannot have a nation based on equality if the voting system is not based on equality, Tara.

Candidates should be competing for our votes. Voters should not compete with other voters like we do here in the English-speaking Western world to get our representatives.

Our voting system is an exclusive voting system. A nation inspiring to be free must have an inclusive voting system.

Here is an example of a city with 8 council seats. You can clearly see how we do it, and how the free nations in the world do it. Scandinavian countries are the happiest in the world for this very reason (plus they have just one House, and no Senate and no Presidency).

In green, voter empowerment is expressed. In white, the lack thereof.

When people in full-colored democracies vote, they simply pick who is going to represent them. They do not compete for a seat. They express how all seats will be occupied by their actual representatives.

We do not need twenty little parties (better not), but two parties and an exclusive voting scheme is definitively not the same as being free.

'The Two-Party Revolution'

https://fred-rick.medium.com/the-two-party-revolution-43dcdb4878a5