Maybe a* priority, but THE priority of a democratic system is to provide for the expression of it's electorates political will. In a representative model this i

Maybe a* priority, but THE priority of a democratic system is to provide for the expression of it's electorates political will. In a representative model this is via elections the end in the formation of a government that enacts that will. "Fairness" has nothing to do with FPTP and winner-take-all unless "take" is outsized to the constituency it represents. While I agree that FPTP is much simpler in concept, it is massively less representative in the context of the US system. An informed electorate is an engage electorate, and it's political processes should be concerned with lifting up it's lowest common denominator, not dragging down it's highest.