"There are any number of non-partisan changes to the structure of American government that could be made to break the feedback loops making the country impossible to govern. . . Adopt a parliamentary-style multi-party legislature — any party that can turn out enough voters gets seats"
Proportional representation in state legislatures and Congress would reduce the political duopoly divisiveness resulting from our prevalent winner take all single choice plurality voting process.
"It is incredibly unlikely that we will ever see meaningful reform come out of D.C. unless by some miracle a wildly popular third party emerges capable of uniting at least half of the people who don’t regularly vote with disaffected members of the Progressive and Conservative wings."
Plurality voting rapidly evolves into a political system with two major parities - no matter what the party platform - with no significant competition from third party or independent candidates.