I keep seeing people say we need ranked choice voting and/or something more akin to a parliamentary legislature... but I just don't see a path to that. Passing the necessary reforms would require the reforms themselves to already be in place. Otherwise you get a Justin Trudeau, running on electoral reform and immediately dropping it as soon as he gets elected (cus if still allows him personally to succeed, how bad is it, reeeaaally?).
The other thing I see is "wait for the old [reactionary] morons to die". Which, like, you know they were saying that when the boomers were the young hip progressives protesting Vietnam, right? I'm not saying there hasn't been progress since then, but our foreign policy has changed very little.
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