The house is a proportional system already, it's just too small to be as proportional as it should be.
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I think we'd end up with a fractured smattering of "left" parties, one or two semi-cohesive liberal parties, and one or two semi-cohesive "right" parties. It would probably end up replicating the current system as the liberals would form a coalition, and the rights would form a separate coalition, while the left mostly fights amongst themselves and fails to establish actual power.
You missed an important one. I've been joking for years that it would take proportional representation in my own country to see the Communist party take a seat anywhere. They seem to pull in votes from people with whom they're personally familiar, which is to say that some of their friends/family cast votes for them if they're charismatic and put-together enough, but the rest of the parties pull in 99% of the vote. If the whole picture were taken as seats, whether city/state/federal level, I'd expect quite a few large cities to account for individual candidates, maybe anarchists as well, but I see them already just-barely accounted for as independents if at all.
Probably 40% centrist*, 8% labour, greens wouldnt make the threshold. 35% Republican 10% libatarian 5% alt right. Rest of the votes spread amount the parties that didnt get enough votes to make it in.
I think you're vastly underestimating the alt-right. You can flip them and Republicans.
Maybe. I just figure most voters are so uninformed they just viee themselves as republican and dont actually have morals. But the alt right are politically informed and activial pursue these political goals.
At what level?
For mayors? Governor? State rep? What about all the elected roles within a state?
Or are you focused solely on president? There proportional makes no sense, as the president is the executive - the third branch, not elected by a popular vote, but by the states (for reasons explained in any intro civics class).
Frankly, proportional makes no sense in US government as it's not like the configuration of governments where proportional is used.