Sweeping Democratic victories in off-year elections seem to be foreshadowing a very good midterms for the party, and one expert believes it’s even bigger than that.

“This is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to fundamentally transform legislative power,” Heather Williams, president of the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee (DLCC), which focuses on electing Democrats to statehouses, told Mother Jones.

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[–] 1 point 10 months ago

Your guys’ country needs more parties

We need significant changes to our voting systems to make a multi-party system viable. As it is stands now, it basically devolves into a 2-party system because a 3rd party will just end up dividing the votes of one side and helping the other end.

There are several voting schemes that would make more parties viable. Unfortunately, it's a catch-22 because the people who can enact such a change are disincentivized from doing so because they benefit from the current paradigm.

/I am using "multi" here to mean more than 2

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