It’s worth a small shout-out to proportional representation as a much bigger and potentially more effective type of electoral reform.

I’m not completely on board with some of the argument why we can’t have RCV because we need some other kind of reform instead. It’s not an either-or. Most people in the US who’ve had RCV like it, and reforming the electoral system and watching it work out well will help to spur future changes in other ways, I think. But I do definitely think that winner-take-all under an RCV system is not the final fix to the system.

Having proportional representation in the US would be a massive improvement. It would be huge. We’d have Green Party people in congress. The flyover states wouldn’t get to dominate our politics anymore. Overall it would just be a wonderful thing.

That may mean it won’t happen soon, but that doesn’t mean that it can’t happen.