One of the most critical priority for any democracy is to improve its electoral system and start using a much better voting method.
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The current role of political parties is tightly bound to the use of plurality voting as a voting method. By adopting a better voting method, the role of political parties with necessarily change. We can imagine the changes in the political landscape, and what type of structures and civil society organisations would replace political parties as they exist today.
In a two-camp system, elected representatives face overwhelming pressure to support their party's position regardless of merit, evidence, or national interest. To break ranks is to betray one's team and empower the enemy. Party Over Country is not a failure of individual moral courage. It is what the compliance machine is designed to produce.