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The US is constitutionally saddled with first past the post voting, which makes more than two parties difficult to represent at the national level. For some reason the two existing parties are unwilling to change that.
This is literally false. The states control the voting, and often allocate local things to the lower levels. There's nothing stopping us (except boomer's deep concern for housing prices and a shocking willingness to throw future generations under the bus for it) from switching to Condorcet-complete voting systems with lottery options.
No we aren't. It's tradition. We can switch to STAR
Misinformation. I literally vote rank choice in the US.
Over a dozen states have already banned ranked choice voting. The establishment knows that if it were to catch on then elected officials will more accurately reflect the actual will of the people and undermine the liberal hegemony, so they banned it.