Ah. Short version as I see it: We need more political parties. To facilitate that, we need to change our voting mechanism from plurality(first past the post) t

Ah. Short version as I see it: We need more political parties. To facilitate that, we need to change our voting mechanism from plurality(first past the post) to something like ranked choice, approval, etc. This eliminates the spoiler effect. The spoiler effect and "choose only one candidate", in short, is what forces us into a two party system. --- If we had more parties, we could organize into a larger set of parties with a better mixture of policy priorities and values. We currently tend to bundle ourselves to whichever party currently owns our "must have" issue, whether it be guns, abortion, LGBT rights, or 'scope of government'. There is no reason "gun rights" and "respect for LGBT existence" have to be in opposite parties. There is no reason "social conservative/anti-LGBT" and "environmentalist" have to be in opposite parties. We would have a lot more compromise and majority building on popular issues if interests could be more accurately represented by nuanced parties.