won't ever happen, but i'd love to see us get rid of the first past the post voting method and go to an alternative vote.
I would think that the better system might be more of a parliamentary system with proportional representation.
Right now we elect Congress not by person, but by party, anyway. And with gerrymandered districts, we really don't have a lot of turnover where a district actually flips red to blue or vice versa.
Do we really think that our local representative is actually looking out for our direct interests rather than following party line? There's no "Mr Smith Goes To Washington" going on as far as I can tell...
So if we're primarily voting for party rather than "muh reprasentitive" anyway, why not actually vote for party? The parties create their own lists of ranking, and seats are allocated based on national popular vote of PARTY representation and the parties go down their lists and the top whatever number that meet the allocation get seats. You set a lower limit, of course... For any party to get seats, they have to win a certain percentage of the national vote. One seat in Congress is 0.22% of the makeup, so set a limit at say 10x that... If your party gets over 2% of the national vote, you get seats allocated according to your percentage.
You know what this does? It actually allows third parties to do something. Today as a libertarian I'm unrepresented. Libertarians (not the party, but the ideology) are believed to comprise 10-15 percent of the American populace, but we don't get
anyone in Congress because we don't command a plurality of ANY individual district.
With individual representation and first past the post voting our system cannot sustain in a stable configuration with more than two parties. I think with individual representation and ranked choice or other voting systems, we still won't have that become a stable configuration. It's only with getting rid of the direct representation model that I think we'd see third parties actually become viable.