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That’s our struggle currently, they both put a lot of effort and money into demonizing it from the perspective that to do so would weaken whichever “team” you’re on and only benefits the other guys. Preventing it is probably the only thing that has bipartisan support.

We have methods of getting citizen led initiatives on the ballot, typically through collecting signatures of registered voters in favor of the initiative being added to the ballot; reach a certain number, they’re validated, the initiative is put up for a vote that bypasses the legislature. The government is constantly making this process more difficult and often finds any excuse to invalidate or undercut the result. Should it make it onto the ballot and win, in theory implementing the policy should move forward. But for policies the bureaucrats and party members are staunchly opposed it becomes a fight through red tape, feet dragging, court battles, appeals, and sometimes they pretty much say “fuck you, we’re not doing it”. With our courts as corrupt as they are and the legislature having unlimited tax dollars to drag out the battle they can bleed their opponents dry until they make it to the Supreme Court who nowadays mostly rules however the regime sees fit.

In my state, one of the strictest and most severe in the nation about weed, the grassroots initiative to override them and legalize it continues to gain traction and quite possibly will pass in another election or two, so the the legislature has been busy trying to make such measures impossible and have debated rewriting our state constitution before it happens so that even if the majority overwhelmingly votes for it, it’s automatically rejected.

The fact both parties are equally concerned about the prospect give me some clue that it’s a step in breaking the stranglehold the parties have over left or right, conservative or liberal, our guy or their guy, and the the democrat’s default “you’ll vote for our pick because it’s the lesser of two evils”. Progressives are running and winning under the democrat “brand” even as their own party refuses to endorse them, so at least on that side we can see party leadership is losing control of it’s power to maintain the status quo of making sure dogma loyal Dems win primaries and seats.

I think ranked choice would destroy the old school, pro-Israel, Cuck Schumer brand democrat party with more candidates like Mamdani, AOC, and Bernie getting elected. Trumpism is not as popular as his propaganda machine makes it, he’s lost some of his most vocal supporters, and his picks are bootlicking and incompetent. Not that I support a return to Regan/Bush style republicanism, but if the choice wasn’t MAGA or Democrat, I suspect there’s no shortage of conservatives that would use ranked choice to begin to distance themselves from MAGA even if they’ll never admit they fucked up and do it for selfish reasons. Quite possibly all this speculation is too late because I don’t think this regime is going anywhere even if it got a mandate from the masses to leave.