Ranked Choice Voting (or ANYTHING with preference polling) would be vastly better than our current system. It would enable 3rd parties to thrive without being nearly the spoilers they are now.
Every voting system as it's flaws and edge cases, but our current First Past the Post system is a trainwreck crushing the Republic by degrading into two majority parties (as it demonstrably always does) and then letting other countries and dark money prop up spoiler candidates to hurt their opponents.
We either fix our voting system or we eventually lose the Republic.
It’s easy to see why people point the finger at third-party votes. In Michigan, where the election was so close that the Associated Press still hasn’t called the result, Trump is ahead by about 12,000 votes. That’s significantly less than the 242,867 votes that went to third-party candidates in Michigan. It’s a similar story elsewhere: third-party candidates won more total votes than the Trump’s margin of victory in Wisconsin, Arizona, North Carolina and Florida. Without those states, Trump would not have won the presidency.
(An aside: while looking for articles using duckduckgo, an "AI" gave me a breakdown, and I hate it. Wtf DDG, you too?)
Yeah. For now at least. Is it their own bot, or are they using the same one as the company they get search results from? I forget if it's Google or Bing.
“It’s directly Jill Steins fault. See look at how many votes ALL 3RD PARTY CANDIDATES COMBINED got!!! No please don’t talk about how the left combined took up a whopping 15% of the 3rd party vote. That libertarian party is like 85% of the 3rd party vote. Or that 40% of people able to vote simply don’t. Nope. Blame 0.31% of voters please and thank you.”
Instead of focusing on the thousands that are further left than you, maybe you should try to convince the millions that aren't. But hey that would be far more democratic and wouldn't be helpful to the status quo would it now....