"why don't we have a 3rd party??? we should make a 3rd party"
no we need ranked choice, two rounds of voting, and to abolish the electoral college

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Last 200 years + other government's structures prove otherwise

If you need a plurality in a single round of voting, people will think ahead and always choose the safest, good pick - it's common sense. With two incumbent parties, the safest pick will always be one of those two. It's why there's no 3rd party Representatives, depite only needing like 300,000 votes in some districts.

There's a reason we have 2 parties and other countries have 10 and it's not a lack of resourcefulness / initiative IMO

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yeah p much, unless the system changes fundamentally to allow for more parties

if you somehow manage to make a relevant third party, it wont be long until its back to two parties again

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We've been trying IRV since at least the 90s. It's a fine experiment but not a silver bullet solution. I don't think there's a way to democratic representation in the US current system but I think it's helpful to participate in third party building anyway as one piece of the puzzle.

issue is there's probably no single 3rd party that could gain enough from both parties to sustainably grow. most governments have either two parties or 10+, so it'll be hard to create The Third Party. But I agree the establishment will not want this as much, but we're seeing ranked choice voting in states already, it'll bubble up

The duopoly won't ever allow actually-democratic procedures to be implemented. We've been trying for decades. The strategy needs to be building a third party as best we can within the current antidemocratic system which is deeply connected to a coalition of social movements outside the corrupt political system, until such time as there's a paradigm shift and the imperialist duopoly collapses in some way because the people are organized and stronger than the State violence that represses us.

Seriously, why is it so hard to get people to rally around ranked choice?