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[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

I think the point was that to change the system away from a 2-party-system, the people who got into power via this system would have to agree to change to a different system which would likely lead to them not being in power.

Politicians are directly disincentivized from changing to a better system. The only direction they are incentivized to change the system to would be a 1-party-system with them in power.

That's why a change to a better, more fair, more liberal electoral system only ever happens when a country is re-founded, e.g. after a lost war or after a revolution.

Btw: If you ignore the 10 amendments to the US constitution that were ratified in the first year (which were basically zero-day patches) and the two amendments that don't have an effect (prohibition and cancellation of the prohibition) you end up with 15 amendments.

France had 15 full constitutional rewrites over about the same time period.