re: #19 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The two-party system is what happens in first-past-the-post elections, even with top two run-offs. People will divide themselves largely into two broad camps. If a party collapses under the American system, a new party simply arises. It would be tough ending parties anyway, since they are essentially clubs.

Here, state offices are non-partisan and party caucuses are prohibited in the Unicameral, yet we still have two parties that co-ordinate outside the legislature. An independent will rarely win, and the third-largest party in the state is the Legalize Marijuana Now Party. (The Libertarian Party has collapsed here after the Von Mises monarchist/racist caucus took over the national party, and the Green Party does not have enough supporters to even form a state party.)

We already have some states with run-offs, such as California (a Democrat or another Democrat), Louisiana (a Republican or another Republican).

California does have two Democrat elections, but it sometimes has two Republican elections, and most of the time it has Democrat Republican elections.

Something like rank order voting (like what they have in Alaska I believe) is more likely to get a voting result that most people find acceptable. *And I know there are theorems that say no voting system can eliminate the spoiler effect”

In such a system, the Green at heart, can always put the Green as their first preference candidate and list the Democrat as their second preference. There might be a few people who are Stein or bust, but many of them are likely to vote for a Democrat as their second preference. (Despite the Mises takeover of the Libertarians, that’s still true for a fair number of them too.)