To the people who keep saying "get over it" about the far-left's sabotage of our nation:

[moriah]

201. Welcome to DU!

Until we have instant runoff voting, "voting your conscience" (for a person wanting a clear conscience) is ensuring at least one vote for the worst evil is cancelled out.

I support IRV because our founding fathers didn't want to see a two-party system. Even with ideological switches, we're overdue for another party system. It'd be nice if it could be one where people could rank preferences, and so those elected would have been ranked highly by a true majority of voters. And I don't think a strong Green party at the local, state, and then congressional levels, which is how you build parties, will hurt things if they won that true majority. It would allow other parties to attempt to build themselves.

I think even 2-3 liberal parties and 2-3 Conservative parties would still quickly form coalitions, but I do think since we're more used to compromise we can form a very effective left coalition. Conservatives arw already seeing their electorate is far more fractured than ours was -- the arguments amongst the many different groups under the "Conservative" umbrella suggest they really don't know how.