Sweeping Democratic victories in off-year elections seem to be foreshadowing a very good midterms for the party, and one expert believes it’s even bigger than that.
“This is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to fundamentally transform legislative power,” Heather Williams, president of the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee (DLCC), which focuses on electing Democrats to statehouses, told Mother Jones.
We need significant changes to our voting systems to make a multi-party system viable. As it is stands now, it basically devolves into a 2-party system because a 3rd party will just end up dividing the votes of one side and helping the other end.
There are several voting schemes that would make more parties viable. Unfortunately, it’s a catch-22 because the people who can enact such a change are disincentivized from doing so because they benefit from the current paradigm.
/I am using “multi” here to mean more than 2