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Then make that "choice" a choice for Ranked Choice Voting at the local level. The Constitution allows for this option. The founding fathers didn't have access to the math that proves FPTP is the worst possible voting system, despite England using FPTP since the middle ages, or as much as 600-800 years at that point.
The problem is the American system of democracy as it is currently organized is too geared to protect the interests of the ruling class.
I compellingly agree that ranked choice or proportional representation would alleviate many of the issues we have, but, unlike many epochs of human history, we are literally running out of time.
That is literally what it was designed to do, so it's doing its job. The founding fathers hated democracy but needed a way to make it appear like they didn't with the constitution. As AdrianTheFrog pointed out, one of the federalist papers for a US government class literally just admits:
None of this will change without a revolution. So I agree with the post.