This is my absolute ideal too, but I worry that it would only take voters away from democrats thus leaving Republicans with a majority. Ranked choice voting is an obvious answer, but what else can we do?

[–] krashmo@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Democrats are already losing to obvious fascists. What would splitting the vote do that hasn't already happened?

[–] notabot@lemm.ee 4 points 4 months ago

Split it faster and make it even harder to regain those votes, leaving the field open to the fascists who stick together.

Under an FPtP system, starting a new party is only a benefit if they can take basically all of the Democrat votes with them and encourage a good percentage of those who didn't vote to vote for them. Many elections have been pretty tight, so even a small reduction in the Democrat vote risks just handing those to the republicans.