If you are not versed in the benefits of electoral reform, you along with the majority of the population, are living in a delusion that politicians and politica

If you are not versed in the benefits of electoral reform, you along with the majority of the population, are living in a delusion that politicians and political parties are the central problem. It's the voting system that is the central problem. First-Past-The-Post, or any winner takes all election deeply distorts election results and worse, it prevents many people from even running in the first place because of the accusations of vote splitting. There are better systems of voting used all around the world that create less divisive governments. The challenge is how to make electoral reform happen. Those who are elected with FPTP are in a conflict of interest with electoral reform, and referendums are often divisive and can be hijacked by people looking to maintain the status quo. Electoral reform is complicated and every system has its flaws, so ideally you convene a Citizens' Assembly (https://nationalcitizensassembly.ca/ https://nationalcitizensassembly.ca/) to have an informed and deliberative process to make the recommendations on electoral reform. This process works for local, state/provincial, and federal levels. If you wanted this in your city, you could get people to call on your city councillors to make this happen locally, and eventually once people have more experience with things like Single Transferable Vote, or whatever variant works best for your constituency, then people will want it for other levels of government. BTW, this also works for other small elections like condo boards, school council, etc. Anything is better than First-Past-The-Post.