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  • Portugal is soooooo much more progressive than the USA, and I’m willing to bet that having something a lot closer to actual democracy than they do is part of the reason.

    I think you’re misunderstanding the effect of not having FPTP. It’s not that you get rid of FPTP and suddenly the mainstream party loses power - not at all, but rather what happens is that they see first hand how close they are to losing power by the number of people casting their primary votes elsewhere. That means they are forced to cater their policies at least a little bit toward all those people, and it ends up having a real meaningful impact on their platform. Whereas in the US, the FPTP system rewards Democrats not for following the wills of the most people, but rather for just being very slightly less right wing than the Republicans, because that way they’ll scoop up the votes of everyone to the left of them, regardless how far left.