Well yes, the whole voting system in US needs to be overhauled. US may have one of the most human-rights-friendly Constitution in the world, but out of all the

Well yes, the whole voting system in US needs to be overhauled. US may have one of the most human-rights-friendly Constitution in the world, but out of all the "democratic" countries it has one of the least democratic voting systems. Heck, people don't even vote their candidates directly in US. You can hardly get any less democratic than that, in any other democratic country. But my point was the US needs a proportional party system, which better represents (in aggregate) the wishes of the people. The two current parties don't represent the wishes of a lot of people right now, especially when it comes to issues like foreign policy and surveillance. A proportional party system would also make it easier for new parties to rise up and become the "major" parties, while the current "major" parties like the Republican and Democratic Party to die off. For example, a more libertarian party could kill the current Republican Party, which is very little libertarian, especially when you consider the conservative Republicans pretending to be libertarians, but still are pro-surveillance, pro-police state, pro-"tough on crime", pro-wars, pro-christianity, pro-coal - which have nothing to do with libertarian-ism. Also a more progressive party could kill the Democratic party, with a much bigger push for renewable energy, civil liberties, gun control, campaign finance reform, stronger bank regulations and prosecutions, and so on. It's all about competition, even in elections. Right now there's no competition to Republicans on the right side, which is why they can afford to vote for bigger budgets for the military and pro-surveillance, despite pretending to be a party of "small government", while on the left side, the Democrats also have no competition when it comes to ensuring banks get punished and are well regulated, and so on. A proportional party system together with a really good voting system (perhaps approval voting or range voting) could fix most of those problems. I'm not saying it's all going to be perfect, but for example, if the Republican party wins with a 40 percent share, and the Libertarian Party takes 12 percent, the Republicans will most likely have to ally with the Libertarians to control Congress, otherwise Democrats and Progressives will have a bigger majority than them. And if they do that, then they'll have no choice but to compromise with the Libertarians. They may agree on some issues, such as lower taxes for everyone, but the Libertarian Party could force them to cut military spending or backtrack on surveillance. And if Republicans continue to be generally Evil Incarnate, then Libertarians could take the Democrats and Progressives' side on civil liberties or renewable energy issues, even without a formal alliance, and could pass strong civil liberties laws even if some Democrats (like now) are against them.