Too bad we don't live in a democracy.
We need to abolish the presidential primaries.
Political parties should be more ideologically coherent (so they can do what they promise) not less ideally, the problem is that the US has completely squeezed everyone into just two parties. A proportional electoral system for Congress and a preferential voting system based on a national popular vote for President would gradually break this down. After centuries of the duopoly, it would take time for people to get used to the new system but this would be a great change to make.
It would ultimately lead to more compromise. It is far more plausible for compromise to occur when the ideological differences are smaller than those between congressional Democrats and Republicans and not ever political incentive is urging them not to compromise.
Terrible post. More ideologically stringent parties are not a solution; power-showing between even more radicalized parties would turn the U.S. into a perpetually ungovernable mess like Italy. The American/French system of weak, candidate-centered parties keeps our democracy adaptable and responsive to voters.
A two-party duopoly actually supports moderation and compromise, since it's to the electoral benefit of both parties to be as close to the median voter as possible. If either party moves away from the center, then the other has a strictly dominant strategy to capture the middle and win a clear majority.
Who said radical parties working together is less democratic than "muh centrism"?
