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Comment by kobalsky | Hacker News Reader

you need a different voting method first, either ballotage or any of the other systems that don't destroy parties with overlapping voters

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Is the destruction a problem? When a viable third-party rises up, you will again return to a two party system, that is true. But it will be with the new party that you want, not the old party that wasn't cutting it.

You’re kinda implying that Old Party is essentially bad in a way that New Party won’t become. That’s not how things work at all. A party is just a collection of people. They don’t go away. The system that got them there doesn’t go away.

I feel like a broken record, but God, Americans need only look beyond their own borders for just a SECOND to see real-world examples of almost every other ‘hypothetical’ posed by all the armchair political scientists in this thread.

Kind of implying in a tongue in cheek way to point out the absurdity of focusing on political parties. Political parties are literally labour unions by another name. You wouldn't hire a worker at your day job based on their labour union affiliation, so why the hell are you concerned about the union a worker in your government business is affiliated with? Dumbest thing imaginable. Just hire people based on their capability to do the job.

Ranked choice solves the vote splitting issue.

Ranked Choice is an improvement, but please research Approval Voting. Simpler and better.

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