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Democrats spent their entire life understanding what FPTP is and their entire political understanding hangs on explaining it to other people any time Democrats get criticized.
I mean, I want to replace FPTP though. Any kind of proportional system is ideal, but Sequential Proportional Approval Voting is ideal.
Democrats hugely benefit from FPTP so they will never advocate for replacing it.
It is a catch22 where the only answer is to call the Democrats bluff and vote for other parties until the Democrats cave to voter demands.
Democrats also refuse to acknowledge that not voting for them is the only way left to pressure them.
Key point, Newsom of California vetoed a bill to enable more ways to vote then just FPTP.
FPTP is in the benefit of both parties. It rallies and polarizes so any other idea besides "Let's not find war, let's fund education and help people" is considered too unpopular to win.
I will advocate to replace it when I'm in office and a Democrat, against the protests of some of my co-workers. As the other commenter pointed out, Newsom killed an anti-FPTP bill, but that means there's enough support in the California legislature to get a bill to his desk.
Democrats will pull every dirty trick they never use against Republicans as soon as the duopoly is endangered.
Man, I guess there's no point in even trying to improve the system if there's going to be opposition.
You cannot improve the system it is fully outside of your control. Only an illusion of control is left.
Hasn't it been replaced in Maine and alaska?
As soon as it got a slight amount of traction both sides of the oligarchy started attacking it.
Case in point as user pointed out down below:
Gavin Newsom vetoes bill to allow ranked-choice voting throughout California