there are aspects of parliamentary systems that encourage tacit collapse to binary coalitions, but those shld be addressed rather than taken as inescapable. electoral systems tht tolerate multiple parties at least do give voters opportunities to express affirmative preferences in ways ours does not.

i’m very strongly of the view that representative bodies should be chosen by some form of PR, single-winner elections should be something like approval voting, and legislative procedure should be reformed to discourage collapse to stake binary coalitions.